And a week later re-hires some of the staff he fired. The acquisition of Twitter has been about as smooth as the Lee Harvey Oswald jailhouse to courthouse transfer.
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TheYayAreaLiving 🎗️
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Dang! A non-refundable policy for this funny $8 Twitter Blue Subscription fee. SMH!
SactoGuy18
macrumors 603
mansplains
macrumors 68000
Lioness~
macrumors 601
Absolutely, there are tons of people out there living fake lifes.
See how long it takes for the Gold subscription cost $1M, that automatically give you every Twitter accounts as followers.
SevLucas
macrumors member
When can we subscribe for more followers also? …asking for a friend
sw1tcher
macrumors 604
Fired half of the staff via email and now they're trying to rehire (some of) them. 🤣
Oops. Twitter is already trying to rehire workers Elon Musk fired days ago, sources say | Fortune
Twitter cut close to 3,700 people this week via email as a way to trim costs following Musk’s acquisition.
I'd be asking for a (re)hiring bonus. 😛
I don’t care what anyone says, this is a great idea and I’ll now be able to quickly spot all the bozos that actually paid for it.
mattopotamus
macrumors Pentium
No doubt, but he is already doing things that should have been done a long time ago, like letting go of staff. Meta is the same way, and they are finally realizing they employee wayyyy too many people. These companies need to be turning over their bottom 10% every year.
SBlue1
macrumors 68020
Shouldn't Elon mark his own account as parody since he is the biggest joke?
BradWI
Suspended
Can't wait for him to tweet lies about how many have signed up. Remember it's a private company now so there's no reason for him to tell the truth and no penalty for lying.
Elon tonight: "30% of users have signed up! Great success!"
Elon tonight: "30% of users have signed up! Great success!"
Even if each and every single current twitter user paid $8/mo, it wouldn't make up the amount that's already been lost in ad dollars..
And, this "Half the ads" policy will likely chase even more ad dollars away..
So.. Yeah.
Bold strategy Cotton. Let's see how that works out for them.
Canyda
macrumors 65816
Well, good thing it doesn't include ID verification. Would *you* hand over a copy of your driver's license or passport to a random programmer at Twitter?
They're already ditching the "official" badges. What a joke. Elon Musk is an absolute clown.
$8/mo to show everyone that you're a sucker...
I'm sure people will line up by the dozens ... dozens ... maybe.
Far more likely that scammers and bot farmers will pay .. the resulting dumpster fire will chase away what remains of the advertisers and real users.
SMFH
What a freaking dumpster fire..
Run by a person with a history of DOXing and SWATting people he disagrees with no less..
SMFH
tgwaste
macrumors 68000
I'm proudly paying $8 to support an actual free speech platform.
aleksander
macrumors regular
"We'll make mistakes as we go along" — I'm sure advertisers are relieved!
the future
macrumors 68040
This is not „reasonable“, it is obviously the very least they have to do, but it is nowhere near as good as proper verification. Also, the example you gave (Tim Cook) is very flawed because of course impersonating very famous people will be quite obvious and easy to spot, especially if that famous person has an account themselve (which almost all of them have). But pretending to be a credible source of specialized information will be much harder to spot and there will be a lot of misinformation damage done before those accounts will (hopefully) be banned. Not properly verifying but only banning/deleting after the fact (and after the damage has been done) is such a typical big-tech cop-out, too, and such a convenient way of not needing to have staff to do the verifying.
Better idea
No $8
No Account
No Twitter (please die twitter, you are a cancer on society)
No Musk (he is a far bigger con than Elizabeth Holmes )
No $8
No Account
No Twitter (please die twitter, you are a cancer on society)
No Musk (he is a far bigger con than Elizabeth Holmes )
tgwaste
macrumors 68000
Did he actually make this statement? If he did, then in 1 second he was more honest than Apple has been in its entire lifetime.
heres another one
If only all businesses could be this honest.
The funny thing is when you tap on the checkmark on someone's profile it tells you whether it was purchased or not.