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The proof would be twitter’s terms of service and Elon’s recent tweets.
He sent one today (Nov. 5) that anyone who attempts to impersonate a public figure will have their account banned and twitter keeps the $8.
Don't like the $8 fee. But would like to see Twitter Blue available in all regions/countries.
And THIS . . . . . from today’s edition Los Angeles Times:
“Six years ago, SpaceX installed an above-ground tube in front of its Hawthorne headquarters, drawing excitement and intrigue from around the city about Chief Executive Elon Musk’s latest experiment.
At annual competitions, engineers and students from across the globesought to develop and test Musk’s proposed Hyperloop transportation technology, which promised to hurl passengers through tunnels in levitating, autonomous electric pods at more than 600 mph, cutting a trip from Los Angeles to San Francisco to 35 minutes.
Today, there is no Hyperloop system in service. And after sitting idle for several years, the tube on Jack Northrop Avenue — which drew complaints about road and pedestrian access, as well as questions of its purpose — has been removed, at the city’s request.”
I’m in the “pass the popcorn please” group. Sheeeesch!!!! Really? Twitter . . . nice while it lasted.
“Six years ago, SpaceX installed an above-ground tube in front of its Hawthorne headquarters, drawing excitement and intrigue from around the city about Chief Executive Elon Musk’s latest experiment.
At annual competitions, engineers and students from across the globesought to develop and test Musk’s proposed Hyperloop transportation technology, which promised to hurl passengers through tunnels in levitating, autonomous electric pods at more than 600 mph, cutting a trip from Los Angeles to San Francisco to 35 minutes.
Today, there is no Hyperloop system in service. And after sitting idle for several years, the tube on Jack Northrop Avenue — which drew complaints about road and pedestrian access, as well as questions of its purpose — has been removed, at the city’s request.”
I’m in the “pass the popcorn please” group. Sheeeesch!!!! Really? Twitter . . . nice while it lasted.
What is the point you are trying to make here?
There’s probably an argument to be made at board level but are you really suggesting 4000 people got fired essentially on a whim because they were all incompetent?
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Won’t it just become a status symbol to not be verified? I’d never in a million years pay to look that shallow. And then we won’t know if famous people are who they say they are. On the plus side, the few people I know who are verified and seem unduly pleased with themselves are about to rejoin us lumpen plebs.
Good. I hope the damn thing goes up in a ball of flame. Always hated the platform and it’s about time it was retired.
That doesn't tell me anything, and beside things are in flux right now and they should be given an ownership change. I think we'll have to wait for things to settle to know anything for sure.
Tweets wont ever cover as proof of anything to me, way too many lies out there, and way too easy to lie. And that goes double for someone like Musk, as he's talked some doosies.
Now a TOS that said that I could believe somewhat, but I'd like to see how they're going to enforce it as well given the new changes.
I’m going to church in the morning to thank god for this. LOL
The question that should be asked is why people and the mainstream news media are treating random tweets as facts and news in the first place. The journalists are supposed to do journalism work, not just quoting tweets verbatim and call it a day. Blame it on lazy journalism, not Twitter.
If Twitter were to seriously approach a bot reduction through the introduction of a subscription model tied to a financial transaction then they could have made it 50 cents a year or even anything at all to cover transactional and administrative costs.
Given verified status and then kept rolling along while clearing out the bots.
8 dollars a month for something that was FREE and ads questionable value is a garbage proposition.
Even the smallest of amounts transacted from a financial institution provides enough of a necessary “check” on identity to weed out the bot driven / auto generated accounts.
It’s just not in any way necessary to charge 8 dollars a month. No way not at all.
The point is that I’m with the sit back and observe crowd (“pass the popcorn”, reference to earlier comments in this thread). . . . and place my chips on the “fail” marker for his Twitter leadership, evidenced by his hyper-loop debacle, promised passenger flights to Mars by 2025, alarm in the scientific community over excessive satellite space junk which will ruin the lower atmosphere, etc etc. Yeah, so Musk hit paydirt with PayPal. But there is a snake oil side here too . . .
I saw that in the LA times today too.
Hyperloop. Hyper fail.
Didn't he say he would put humans on mars in 10 years? Eleven years ago?
Hard to keep track of the things he claims and the failures that result from it.
Hyperloop. Hyper fail.
Didn't he say he would put humans on mars in 10 years? Eleven years ago?
Hard to keep track of the things he claims and the failures that result from it.
I think this tweet makes the most sense (read this thread)
Certain bad counties in the world can better launder their reputations and actions if there is NO twitter.
So they look forward and WANT him to tank it.
By reading this far you owe me 8 bucks.
Certain bad counties in the world can better launder their reputations and actions if there is NO twitter.
So they look forward and WANT him to tank it.
By reading this far you owe me 8 bucks.
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Does anyone know if Twitter has a refund policy on that $8 fee? If so what’s the refund policy? Is it refundable? 🤥🤥
Yes, the richest man on planet earth (as ranked by Forbes in 2022) is an enormous failure. An epic failure.
People like you need to grow up. Elon gets way too much crap for things. He is a brilliant businessman and will get us to mars.
I think you're underestimating just how much money can be behind some of those bots...
My friend worked for Earthlink, MySpace and a smaller tech company and left all 3 right before their demise. She survived layoff after layoff because she’s a good employee and good software engineer. It’s the way it goes.
jack dorsey says he severely overstaffed after going public.
Is that he brilliant before or after sexually harassing his employee?
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/na...0220519-xm6d3se2pja7dnf7adkoryv23a-story.html
Or is he brilliant losing racial discrimination case because he did nothing of the rampant racism occurring on the Tesla factory lines?
Judge cuts the payout in a Black former Tesla contractor's racial discrimination suit
A federal judge has slashed the award to Owen Diaz over claims that he was subjected to racial discrimination at work to $15 million. A jury had ordered the automaker to pay Diaz $137 million.
www.npr.org
Or maybe he’s brilliant cause….hyper looooooop!
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-11-05/elon-*******-hyperloop-tunnel-hawthorne-removed
Or maybe he’s brilliant because he’s going to get us to mars in three more years!!!
Elon Musk thinks you could travel to Mars really soon
The SpaceX founder hopes to put humans on Mars in the mid-2020s, but that's just the first tiny baby step toward creating his vision of a Martian metropolis.
www.cnet.com
Maybe that one, I’m going to say it’s for the 44 billion dollar one.
Funny how the whiners are whining on the platform they’re whining about. Seems that justifies Musk’s decision as people don’t want to leave their echo chamber.