Since Musk took over Twitter, there has been a lot of noise! But, has that noise really contributed to better? Has Elon Musk improved Twitter in any way?
Well, guess, it’s too early to answer that, however, let’s have a look at what changes have been imposed during the last 50 days of Elon Musk becoming the ‘Chief Twit’
Is that ‘Chief Twit’ experiment coming to an end as Musk launched a poll yesterday.
and here are the results –
The results have not gone in Musk’s favour, and he has, thus far, stuck to his word on abiding by poll results.
Here’s a look back at all of the major announcements and policy updates that have been implemented thus far by Elon and his Twitter 2.0 team.
- Paid Verification
Musk’s first big announcement, of course, was his paid verification plan, through which people will be able to pay $8 per month to get a blue checkmark, so they can digitally cosplay as celebrities in the app.
Musk originally wanted to charge $20 per month, before realizing that was too high for normal folk who don’t have billions of dollars in discretionary spend. So he lowered it to $8, or $96 per annum to keep your blue tick – though iOS subscribers have to pay $11 per month because Elon doesn’t want to pay Apple’s 30% in-app purchase tax out of his own pocket.
This move was flawed from the very beginning with no value addition to the end user and clearly a direct stream of revenue for Twitter.
2. Account reinstatements
Over the last month, Twitter has gone about re-instating some 60,000 accounts, belonging to those who had previously broken the platform’s rules – because Musk wants to start off new, with a clean slate.
Not a great move once again, as the banned users are back and flouting the rules again!
The next one is a significant one (at least that’s what we think)
3. No Live Location sharing
In the words of Twitter –
When someone shares an individual’s live location on Twitter, there is an increased risk of physical harm. Moving forward, we’ll remove Tweets that share this information, and accounts dedicated to sharing someone else’s live location will be suspended.”
4. Mass firing, resignations at Twitter globally
Now, despite all this noise, has Elon Musk improved Twitter?
Honestly, NO!
Not at all.
Which may be why now is a good time for Elon to step away, if he does so, though despite him stepping back, that still doesn’t mean he won’t be in control of the app.
Elon taking a backseat makes sense, if he does it. And his past history does not suggest that he’s overly great at taking a more passive role at his companies.
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