Twitter Blue just launched, and it's ... going really well so far [Contains Twitter]

[Emrys]

Twitter Blue is trending in the UK, at least. My curiosity got the better of me and I'm a great fan of recursiveness and all things meta, so I checked the top few tweets. Here's a wee sample from the first 20 or so.

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Daniel Sinclair
@_DanielSinclair

Ok so they launched the new Twitter Blue features, but they forgot to change the IAP price from $4.99, and the Verified feature doesn’t actually work. The New banner takes you no where.

Gui
@guicane

It says it’s available in the UK but there’s no sign of it in the updated app

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Elon Musk
@emilycrockett

I can't wait until Twitter Blue drops and THE PEOPLE have a say!

Specifically the people who are trolls.

Who will now get to credibly impersonate a celebrity for the LOW LOW PRICE of $8/month!!!

This guy's bio says he's a Tesla investor:

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Sawyer Merritt
@SawyerMerritt

BREAKING: Twitter has officially launched the revamped Twitter Blue for $7.99/month in select countries.

Not all features are live yet. Some are coming later. Looks like the blue verified checkmark is now part of Twitter Blue, but as a Blue user I’m not seeing a checkmark yet.

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Gergely Orosz
@GergelyOrosz

On one end, impressive that this new, verified feature got built and shipped in a week, people working 84 hour weeks.

On the other: it doesn’t work.

I’m a Twitter Blue subscriber. The new app tells me I now have a verified checkmark. But I don’t.

Fast work, but sloppy work.

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nilay patel
@reckless

Reminder to everyone doing Twitter Blue subscriber and revenue math that Apple takes 30 percent of every subscription for the first year whee

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Sabuuchi
@Sabuuchi

It would really suck if people bought Twitter Blue with the sole intention of uploading entire episodes of TV shows to get the host in trouble for negligently enabling copyright infringement.

Surely a lack of proper content ID systems and stripped moderation team wont hurt this.

To be fair, one guy is delighted because he posts animation videos, and with his new blue tick and all, he's now posted a 10-minute video, but nobody got time for that. Well, OK, surprisingly, 999 repliers seemed to have, but he's using the surge in interest to spam the first few reply slots with links to assorted tat and paraphernalia and invite folks to "follow our YT channel we post videos there almost daily". So he's paid Musk his yearly sub to post a longer video than he'd normally share on Twitter, and one person in the replies I looked at before I totally lost interest has invoked @Downloaderbot. Somebody hasn't quite thought through the economics of all this, maybe it's me.

Happy days. I'm just going to back away from all this now and let it simmer. More at the link in the first sentence up top if anyone's interested.

OOPS. ETA I forgot to include this one:

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Win98 Tech Support
@Win98Tech

Twitter Blue is apparently rolling out so just getting this ready to go

[The_Casual_Observer]

1. Works as well as self driving cars.

[karynnj]

2. Observation: they claim to make ads more relavent.

One would think that for the company paying for ads, it would be their interest, thus twitters, to match ads to people as well as possible.