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Twitter to Add 'Official' Label to Some Accounts With Original Verification Checkmark
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But it USED to mean that. People were punished by having their Blue Check removed. To the 'average' uneducated and self-absorbed member, that Blue Check was/is the Holy Grail! Once you got that you were INFAMOUS! People will pay to be able to feel they are better than others, and it streams through reality. Cars, houses, jobs, spouses, vacations, on and on...
People will pay for the Blue Check, and feel great about doing it, and what else can a conman see but their marks enthusiastically forcing their money in the conman's pockets. There is a reason that Fox News isn't on basic cable.
Like that movie 'The Joneses'! A 'family' was created to influence people to buy things, and the results are as you might believe. It's a pretty odd movie, but I liked it...
But it does bring out the truth about human nature for many. People will freely go into debt to get 'the' golf clubs, 'the' car, 'the' stereo, 'the' backyard, on and on. In high school the 'stuff you had to have' was crazy! Some didn't last long at all. I remember when Lee jeans was The Thing, but that fad didn't last. Overalls was popular for a while. 'Painter pants'. Buckle back jeans, macrame belts, stacked heels for boys, wide wale cords, cable knit cotton sweaters, etc, etc, on and on....
Twitter has been a dumpster fire with the purchase, but I'd be lying if it hasn't been extremely entertaining.
I'll be sad when Twitter is ultimately ruined, but for now it's like the Titanic sinking but instead of the group playing their instruments, it's just an open mic night.
I'll be sad when Twitter is ultimately ruined, but for now it's like the Titanic sinking but instead of the group playing their instruments, it's just an open mic night.
What are you thinking, bringing common sense to an argument?
So basically all the notable people will get this new tick for free, and will lose their blue tick since there's no point paying. Soon enough there'll be standard users, grey tick users who are signposted as important, and blue tick users, who have paid to have a little blue PNG by their name.
The grey tick will become synonymous with importance, the blue tick synonymous with desperation, all the Musk fans buying Twitter blue will find that instead of achieving status with the tick, they've put a target for mockery on their back, and they'll begin to covet the grey tick, because everyone respects and listens to the grey tick accounts.
They'll stop seeing a benefit to the tick, they'll stop paying, and soon enough the site will basically be just grey ticks and normal accounts.
It is now May 2023, and we are exactly where we were a year ago, but a little less #1DA1F2 and a little more #D3D3D3.
The grey tick will become synonymous with importance, the blue tick synonymous with desperation, all the Musk fans buying Twitter blue will find that instead of achieving status with the tick, they've put a target for mockery on their back, and they'll begin to covet the grey tick, because everyone respects and listens to the grey tick accounts.
They'll stop seeing a benefit to the tick, they'll stop paying, and soon enough the site will basically be just grey ticks and normal accounts.
It is now May 2023, and we are exactly where we were a year ago, but a little less #1DA1F2 and a little more #D3D3D3.
Can I just say that the Twitter account's banner, though likely intentioned to be ironic, is also unironically the biggest problem with Twitter?
Anywho, as for this latest change to the check marks, I think it's a fair enough compromise, though I feel the grey checkmarks should just apply to company/corporate/government accounts, and no individual persons. But that's just my take.
Anywho, as for this latest change to the check marks, I think it's a fair enough compromise, though I feel the grey checkmarks should just apply to company/corporate/government accounts, and no individual persons. But that's just my take.
Sounds pretty tyrannical and vvv sad. Poor Elon, I’m worried he’s actually a bit simple.
What? That's like saying if everyone had a driver's license no one has a driver's license.
You realize there is more to the verified program than the imaginary social status emoji right?
Soooo "Official" is the new Blue Checkmark and the Blue Checkmark is the new no Blue Checkmark. Got it. 😂
Exactly. This latest pivot in strategy completely and totally invalidates ANY reason ANYONE would ever buy that stupid Blue subscription. I just can’t imagine a scenario that begs the need for it. “Longer videos”?!! There’s several other platforms for that and I can blast a link to those videos from ANY other social platform.
The total idiocy of this debacle is mind boggling. (Need to re-watch “Idiocracy” to see if this was predicted in their timeline… LOL)
The only positive news I've seen out of this so far is that the landing page now lets you view content instead of trying to force you into signing up.
Other than that, the bravado is replaced by the realization that there's actual work to do. I say that no so much about Musk, but about the people who expected an instant revitalization of the service.
Other than that, the bravado is replaced by the realization that there's actual work to do. I say that no so much about Musk, but about the people who expected an instant revitalization of the service.
I’m seeing this roll out now with some news accounts like CNN, BBC. Now accounts have the original blue/white verification check and another gray/white check with the word ‘official’ next to it. How stupid and confusing. What’s the criteria for an account getting this new ‘official’ tag? Is it something you apply for or does someone at Twitter decide and apply it?
So now there’s another ‘elitist’ badge that apparently only Twitter gets to decide who qualifies for one or not. How is that any different than the existing blue check?
I’m out.
I’ve already said that I haven’t subscribed to Twitter in 8 years or so, I can’t avoid articles or videos or reposting about it but I’m not going to try to change someone’s mind. For me, Twitter has never been somewhere to exchange and debate ideas, it’s been funny video snippets and angry irrational people yelling at each other. Now it’s VERY angry people. I lived most of my life without it and I can probably live the rest that way.
I’ve already said that I haven’t subscribed to Twitter in 8 years or so, I can’t avoid articles or videos or reposting about it but I’m not going to try to change someone’s mind. For me, Twitter has never been somewhere to exchange and debate ideas, it’s been funny video snippets and angry irrational people yelling at each other. Now it’s VERY angry people. I lived most of my life without it and I can probably live the rest that way.
I bet they’re moving towards having twitter be a paid platform to interact. Soon you’ll have to have a blue check mark to tweet at all.
Exactly. Twitter Blue needs to come with some sort of badge that shows you have it. Just give it a different symbol from official verification badges and call it a day.
Everyone is. They’re just really bad at it.
every time I see Facebook & twitter in the news I think that somewhere out there, there are people still using those services, and then I think of my friend Eric with his Yahoo email address, and about a dozen members of our British car club that still communicate with the world through AOL email addresses somehow, and it starts to make more sense.
Thanks for this terrible and wrong definition of parody!
And if checked is not verified now, then how will that stop bots. If someone's bot makes them over $8/mo, they'll just sub with it