social capital is highly correlated to financial capital

the people for whom verification is important will pay $240/yr without thinking about it 

Is being verified on twitter worth 2x the price of Netflix? imo, absolutely, and it’s even worth way more than that

The price is quite low. Should be related to distribution size (the amour of followers). $1 for every 1k followers up to $1k (1M followers).

People don’t have to pay but if they don’t their tweets won’t propagate as far (limited exposure).