That's been this whole thread for the most part. Posts based on personal opinions of Musk, not the state of Twitter.
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translation: I hate Elon musk so much I’ll make some fantasy prediction on how I want him or anyone who supports him to fail.
Elon lovers: “woo hoo! This is great”
Elon haters: 2 page fantasy article on why he’s bad.
That’s assuming Musk actually removes the checkmark for people who don’t pay. He’s such a BS’er I wouldn’t be surprised if he never follows through.
Ok let's beat this dead bird one last one,
Read the link, to which I would respond:
"Well obviously, Ukraine did not pay their 8 bucks!"
Ukraine lost access to 1,300 Starlink terminals over a funding issue
Read the link, to which I would respond:
"Well obviously, Ukraine did not pay their 8 bucks!"
Ukraine lost access to 1,300 Starlink terminals over a funding issue
i’m alittle late to the pitty party but it’s amusing all these people saying Musk is running twitter into the ground .. in 3 days 😂 .. yea , he totally ran it into the ground in 3 days /s it’s been in the ground long before he acquired it. people are just oblivious. same people saying Musk is bad believe orange man bad.. 😂
It baffles me that Musk is tying the ’blue check’ to a subscription service. If this was just about the elites vs the masses Musk could have said Twitter was expanding the ‘blue check’ verification to anyone who wanted it and then explained the steps to get it. And maybe even simplified the process since it would apply to everyone and not just notable or high profile people. How is charging $8/mo for it bringing it to the masses?
How would Twitter catch it? A Twitter handle (i.e. @xxx) has to be unique but the display name can be anything you want.
And then get into the same problem as before. What is the criteria for ‘notable person’? You’ll have people complaining that so and so got listed as a ‘notable person’ but they didn’t.
Can I pay $8/mo to see fewer ads without having the blue checkmark? That would be nice.
Also, I don't see anyone blaming the former Twitter board of directors for this. Wouldn't they know that Musk would have to aggressively cut costs given he took on debt to finance the deal? Musk wanted to back out and the board could have saved all these folks from getting laid off, no?
Also, I don't see anyone blaming the former Twitter board of directors for this. Wouldn't they know that Musk would have to aggressively cut costs given he took on debt to finance the deal? Musk wanted to back out and the board could have saved all these folks from getting laid off, no?
I guess it depends on what you think Musk is trying to solve (if he even knows). It seems pretty clear though that supporters of Elon consider the blue check to be an elite signifier and that the changes he’s making are for the express purpose of pissing off those so-called elites.
It was never free speech platform when multiple individuals were banned when others didn’t agree with them.
Yeah but you can run it losing 4 million dollars a day, right?? I’m sure you know better then the owner of tesla, spacex and starlink
Twitter did this to themselves. All they had to do was apply the rules they had equally to everyone on the platform. They were unable to do that because at some point Twitter let their employee's political/world views override the rules set forth. Notice I did not say "free speech" because this is not about free speech and never really has been. It is about applying the rules as stated by Twitter equally, at least to me.
Twitter today is the same cesspool it was 4 days ago. Maybe with some added whining from some new groups.
Twitter today is the same cesspool it was 4 days ago. Maybe with some added whining from some new groups.
Not sure, we don't know if it will work the same. If people will continue to be able to able to change their username whenever they like.
He has confirmed that they will ban people who do it.
He has explained what they are looking to achieve with the paid verification. It's part authentication ie verifying that the account belongs to a real person and not a bot, making sock puppeting and bot armies cost prohibitive and part revenue driver.
He talks about it in this interview from this week, the twitter discussion starts at 31.10 but the link below starts from his explanation of the paid verification.
Personally, I really like the subscription. It's easier to get the blue check, and it makes people more transparent
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But I thought it was the Wild West now where anyone can pretend to be anyone and say anything?
An in app purchase on Apple iOS means an Apple ID, which again has a credit card attached to it. Again, hard to do huge number of fake accounts and then the fake account attaches back to a credit card. I don't know how this would work though with Android App and payment process there though.
Everything can be defeated once or for a short time with some effort. But misinformation spreaders like Russia need to operate at a scale that is in the thousands of accounts to have a chance to achieve their goals.
Exactly. The blue check was only meant to be something that said "this person/organization is who they say they are." And in a social media world that is filled with people who are willing to say anything online just because their anonymity gives them a pass, that actually matters.
The intent has always been one of being simply "verified," and not "special." The difference is, one is a thing that Twitter did to show the account had been verified, and the other is a perception that some people have about seeing the blue check. Which is a sad side effect of perceived social media clout. Not everyone wants to be an influencer, some people just want to have an account that is verified.
Wrong. Twitter takes your money and you get a blue checkmark implying verification. No ID or verification of any sort whatsoever is checked. Just imagine how well this is going to go...
This has since been confirmed by those getting checkmarks. Spoiler: here‘s how well this is going:
