{"id":7637,"date":"2022-11-01T19:38:40","date_gmt":"2022-11-01T18:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/01\/musk-proposes-charging-8-for-verified-twitter-account-despite-user-backlash\/"},"modified":"2022-11-01T19:38:40","modified_gmt":"2022-11-01T18:38:40","slug":"musk-proposes-charging-8-for-verified-twitter-account-despite-user-backlash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/01\/musk-proposes-charging-8-for-verified-twitter-account-despite-user-backlash\/","title":{"rendered":"Musk proposes charging $8 for verified Twitter account despite user backlash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The new owner justified the measure saying \u2018we need to pay the bills somehow\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Elon Musk has indicated that a verified account on Twitter in the future could cost $8 a month, despite facing a user backlash over proposals to monetize the feature.<\/p>\n<p>The new owner of Twitter described the current system for allocating blue check marks \u2013 which verify a user as a trustworthy source \u2013 as \u201cbullshit\u201d in a Twitter post to his more than 110 million followers on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/nov\/01\/musk-charging-twitter-verified-accounts\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/a25cff191440399c915808ee9d0e54e5d0422281\/0_58_3500_2100\/master\/3500.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=f05979c5f83817071c1c814138a8ef37\" title=\"Musk proposes charging $8 for verified Twitter account despite user backlash\" \/>The new owner justified the measure saying \u2018we need to pay the bills somehow\u2019<br \/>\nElon Musk has indicated that a verified account on Twitter in the future could cost $8 a month, despite facing a user backlash over proposals to monetize the feature.<br \/>\nThe new owner of Twitter described the current system for allocating blue check marks \u2013 which verify a user as a trustworthy source \u2013 as \u201cbullshit\u201d in a Twitter post to his more than 110 million followers on Tuesday. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new owner justified the measure saying \u2018we need to pay the bills somehow\u2019 Elon Musk has indicated that a verified account on Twitter in the future could cost $8 a month, despite facing a user backlash over proposals to monetize the feature. The new owner of Twitter described the current system for allocating blue &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/01\/musk-proposes-charging-8-for-verified-twitter-account-despite-user-backlash\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Musk proposes charging $8 for verified Twitter account despite user backlash<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":7638,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7637"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}