[Brazelton] Twitter
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The last few days have been a complete shitshow, to put it mildly.
First, they introduce the new version of verification, which includes...a checkmark AND a little thing note on your profile saying "official." Double the verfication at half the value!
When people laughed at how stupid that was when a simple checkmark was just as sufficient, that was quickly dropped.
And now, a bunch of fake but "verified" accounts (as in, they paid the $8 started cropping up. And naturally, because they looked legitimate enough, people though they were the real thing.
Oh, and Musk's next brilliant idea: turning Twitter into some kind of banking system.
Meanwhile, Tesla's stock price dropped another 7.17% just today. It's worth less than half its value only a year ago.
Oh, and the Republican that Musk personally endorsed lost.
So his week is going spectacularly.
First, they introduce the new version of verification, which includes...a checkmark AND a little thing note on your profile saying "official." Double the verfication at half the value!
When people laughed at how stupid that was when a simple checkmark was just as sufficient, that was quickly dropped.
And now, a bunch of fake but "verified" accounts (as in, they paid the $8 started cropping up. And naturally, because they looked legitimate enough, people though they were the real thing.
Oh, and Musk's next brilliant idea: turning Twitter into some kind of banking system.
Meanwhile, Tesla's stock price dropped another 7.17% just today. It's worth less than half its value only a year ago.
Oh, and the Republican that Musk personally endorsed lost.
So his week is going spectacularly.
Like, I dunno, PayPal?
I had to read the scarlet letter so many times in school I just turned in the same paper as a year before with minor edits. If that can get me a C+ who knows what this will do for Musk!
Nah, he sold that, so this is totally different.
figmentPez
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Twitter is becoming $8chan
figmentPez
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figmentPez
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I'm a little too proud of myself for this one.
Elon Musk is putting Twitter at risk of billions in fines, warns company lawyer
Keep talking, tough guy. The federal government will not fuck around, and they certainly won't let Musk prance around, flouting a legal settlement.
...depending on who will control the government in three months' time, of course. Since some people's opinion of freedom is different from others'
figmentPez
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figmentPez
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If only there were some kind of...verification process.
figmentPez
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Tumblr lets you buy two blue checkmarks for the same price, and you can get as many as 24!
Yep. Bought it to literally kill it.
Listen, if you have anything on twitter you want to keep, and you haven't done so already, archive it now. Screenshot it, rip it, whatever. Don't wait.
--Patrick
figmentPez
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The version of that I saw said WinZip (or maybe WinRAR) instead of Wikipedia.
So it's now a sign just for Indian and Russian bots? Practical