Ask HN: From countries outside Twitter Verified places, how’s your experience?
I‘m from Germany and even if I wanted to, Twitter Verified isn‘t available as a subscription here. Only in the US, Canada etc.<p>It could be entirely placebo, but recently I‘ve seen more verified posts in my timeline and honestly I now feel pretty demotivated from posting. My understanding is that even if no changes were made to the algorithm, Twitter always favored verified accounts.<p>So since there are now more active verified users, for anyone not within those countries where it is available, I feel like posting isn‘t worth it anymore.<p>But at the same time, it‘s hard to tell and I‘d rather spend my time on a distribution platform where the mental model is clear.<p>And before everyone calls me an Elon hater: I think having an 8$ subscription for improving the social graph is actually a neat idea. I just think it‘s currently really half-assed if not everyone can subscribe.<p>What has your experience been? Do you still get through to your followers? Have you switched to alternatives? Did you get the blue checkmark?