Starting August 7th, advertisers that haven’t reached certain spending thresholds will lose their official brand account verification. According to emails obtained by the WSJ, brands need to have spent at least $1,000 on ads within the prior 30 days or $6,000 in the previous 180 days to retain the gold checkmark identifying that the account belongs to a verified brand.

Threatening to remove verified checkmarks is a risky move given how many ‘Twitter alternative’ services like Threads and Bluesky are cropping up and how willing consumers appear to be to jump ship, with Threads rocketing to 100 million registrations in just five days. That said, it’s not like other efforts to drum up some additional cash, like increasing API pricing, have gone down especially well, either. It’s a bold strategy, Cotton — let’s see if it pays off for him.

  • dangblingus@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Imagine losing your arbitrary blue check mark because you didn’t buy enough ads on a platform that no one really uses anyway.

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        1 year ago

        Huh? TIL!

        I just had a a quick check and @CocacCola has a gold star but @CocaColaAU does not.

        Sony and Uber do, Colgate and Purina do not.

        If large multinationals with effectively limitless marketing budgets can’t be brothered ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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        1 year ago

        Ironically, Musk also wanted us to believe that 50% of those were bots just a couple months ago…