Mashable reports:
Researcher Travis Brown, who has been tracking Twitter Blue subscriptions since January, recently revealed around half of all users subscribed to Twitter Blue have less than 1,000 followers. That’s approximately 220,132 paying subscribers.
Furthermore, 78,059 paying Twitter Blue subscribers have less than 100 users following their account. That’s 17.6 percent of all Twitter Blue subscribers. There are 2,270 paying Twitter Blue subscribers who have zero followers.
All told, this means that less than 0.2 percent of Twitter’s 254 million daily active users, a metric previously shared by Musk, are paying for Twitter Blue.
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Under the coming system, these relative nobodies with few or zero followers will be forced into your “For You” feed. It’s believed that very few “legacy” accounts will pay to keep their checkmarks.
as Twitter plans to remove legacy verification & solely promote Blue subscribers on users’ feeds, here’s some new Twitter Blue data:
➡️ 50% of all paying subs have less than 1k followers
➡️ around 18% have less than 100
➡️ thousands have 0 followers https://t.co/XjGJwFpe3Q
— Matt Binder (@MattBinder) March 28, 2023
of the approximately 420,000 legacy verified Twitter users, just around 6,500 of them are currently paying for Twitter Blue https://t.co/XjGJwFpLTo
— Matt Binder (@MattBinder) March 28, 2023
Starting April 15th only white nationalists with 30 followers will be in For You recommendations pic.twitter.com/2XExjSLncZ
— eve6 (@Eve6) March 28, 2023