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Nov 4, 2022 12:36 PM
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rubypilgrim
when your audience cares nothing for truth or facts, sure, who needs verification?
sophievic
Simply put, its not verification any more.
TheUtahn
SteveMND
magneticmagic3
It's like Elon is trying to take the actual marketable qualities of twitter and remove them.
DarthAndy
Coming soon: Red checkmarks for verified people, only $50 / month
neonkrypton
Maybe they will be white check marks for $100.
brickius
Cool, looking forward to being verified as Elon Musk and just posting socialist propaganda every day
LuminoZero
Fun Fact: Twitter implemented the blue check system because they were getting sued for people impersonating public figures.
KillingTlme
If you are still using Twitter, you are part of the problem. Just delete your account and shut the fuck up.
SmokyDoggg
BoopDaSnoots
Everyone get out of my way. The new Donald Trump is in the house, and I'm bringing blackjack and hookers with me.
BoopDaSnoots
Lets see how many donation can I wring out from my adoring fans b4 those idiots know
stickywiggit
This is both horrifying and Schadenfreude.
mytruepersonality
So if i make a musk twitter account and am verified does that mean i own twitter?
Tyaldan
Im just saying, if i can get verified as elon musks gaping saggy asshole, that might be the most entertaining 8$ ive ever spent for 1 min
ReverseSyzygy
?
mikeymikec
So who's going to get verified as Elon Musk then?
Cataleast
They're on to you. That L is actually a capital i :)
MickeyCallahan
throwitoutandstartover
so in theory someone could make a fake elon musk account and get the fancy checkmark beside it?
sherlockhooves
Just one more side project Musk is gonna run into the ground and forget about with only half of it complete. What a fucking tool
Squaba13
I already planned to buy the Tucker Carlson check so this makes it easier.
ricpaul
And what were you gonna do? Publish verified facts? You monster...
Squaba13
Pretty much
LivingDeadX
Excited to see how much of shit-storm Twitter devolves into.
thechelonianshelmet
So, the check mark will just mean 'verified payer,' or more accurately, 'verified punter.'
faultysage
Musk is just trying to get away with dozens of verified alt accounts so he can go back to manipulating Tesla stock and blame trolls.
Kenbamazingbutprobablywontbe
He has to cut all costs because he leveraged his loan with tesla stock. And twitter doesn't make money. So hell need to leverage more
SteveMND
He's a billionaire that has complete control over one of the most influential social media platforms in the world. Stock will be the least >
SteveMND
< of the things he'll try to manipulate with it.
Kenbamazingbutprobablywontbe
It will mess with tesla stock price as he has to pay out a bunch of twitter stock from fired staff too. Its a hemorrhaging of money.
SteveMND
Oh, no doubt it's nothing but a loss. But I think he feels that his larger goals will eventually make the loss worth it.
PeaceBaby
It's not just IF Musk will destroy Twitter, but how quickly.
SirenBrick
Yes, but Russian bot troll farms will be happy, they have been fighting the verification check mark since it was established.
splud
Go Elon, Go! You got this.
BurlRavenscroft
what if for one month we all bought one and were all Elon Musk?
Mohareb
Paying more for a checkmark that loses any value as a checkmark in the same go. Great thinking
SithElephant
A tenth a percent of your net worth.
yoyo42
Almost like paying $44B for something that loses almost all its value BECAUSE you just bought it.
MyCommentsUsuallyHaveTypos
RIGHT. I can't wait to see HOW many fake accounts of celebrities & politicians pop up. Seriously, Twitter is going to TANK.
TheJuiceLoosener
How much would you pay me not to put on a mask that looks like your face and film myself w my pants off screaming the N-word?
Mohareb
Not really the sort of thing that turns me on enough to pay for it but i won't stop you either
Rasdwa
Musk is a genius, dont you know
Rubblebubble
there seems to be this weird obsession the right have w/ the blue check as a status symbol which i personally don't understand since the 1/2
Rubblebubble
check is supposed to indicate a verified identity and it makes sense that prominent people would need to be identified as legitimate.
Z0op
Thats exactly why the right is obsessed for it because that criteria makes it hard for them to get and then spout nazi shit and keep it
Rodenbeard
True capitalist thought processing at work
zanaria
That's the whole point. He wants to let people pay him so they can impersonate democrats...
SirenBrick
So, Russian bot troll farms get to come back... they won't stop at pretending to be dems, they will go back to impersonating celebs, again.
zanaria
It will first be used to undermine democracy.
lightfoot2
Well that saves money. Besides, why bother to "fact check" anything on Twitter (soon to be rebranded as 4Klan)
fractalsphere
twitchan is available
siegfriedwatson
Isn’t that just twitch after hours? ?
HydrophobicDude
That's the point. Now fake news can be 'verified' and even more people will believe it. This is why he bought twitter.
lightfoot2
Won't work. Reputation is really easy to lose, do you see people quoting weekly world news, the Enquirer, or the Daily Stormer? Same thing.
WarlockSniper
I've literally had people quoting "Rebel News", as well as Stormfront and Breitbart on this site. Motherfucking Stormfront and Breitbart.
TZO2k15
That's the thing, we could easily change the landscape by adding our voices to drown out the nazis much as we did with imgur!
lightfoot2
Maybe, but who would benefit? Thank you but no.
TZO2k15
Bypassing the 140-char limit…
lightfoot2
Question: Wouldn't the person who profits by this be Elon? What about walking away, finding our own place, and letting Tw become Myspace?
lightfoot2
Let them destroy themselves and see what they can "create" without our input or sanction? (Yes, such a John Galt thing to do.... Ironic)
Harryteeters
4Chan is already 4Klan. Twitler, maybe
TI99Kitty
Twitzi?
bibidybop
Shitter
ChipNDaleNCats
*shitler
Mithi
Volxempfänger (catchy Umlaut!)
lrateyourrig
That's /pol. 4chan has okay spots, except for the aforementioned & /b. But b/ is shit tier trash, it always has been and they know it.
lrateyourrig
Also 8chan is the nazi hellscape people who think /pol is too "leftist" & it's just cheese pizza to the right of that.
deswriteless
Didn’t twitter get a lawsuit because of impersonation and had to establish the blue check because of it?
Eidodk
They did see a lawsuit, but it was settled out of court, and Twitter itself implemented the system after the fact.
DigiT00l
So, the system was still established because legal stuff?
DulothX
So, yes.
Eidodk
https://techcrunch.com/2009/06/06/facing-lawsuits-and-complaints-from-celebs-twitter-launches-verified-accounts/
DougForcett
This. The whole point of the verified account system is to keep the celebrities that use the system happy. They don't want random people /1
WoodHandle
Or maybe where death threats are coming from.
DougForcett
impersonating them obviously. But they generate a ton of app engagement so Twitter is motivated as hell to keep them happy. They're like /2
DougForcett
free content boosters. I don't think I've ever had a tweet or reply get more than a handful of likes or comments. But the verified handles/3
TheN8
£10 a month to pretend to be Musk sounds like a bargain...
wiggadewah
He's been suspending any accounts that pretend to be him.
TheN8
No surprise there. Free speech for me, but not for thee.
fatcatdeadrat101
I miss the time when no one cared about Twitter.
Richter12x2
I live the glory days by still not caring about Twitter. Beyond it being a boat anchor train wreck around Musk's neck anyway.
GoodChange
Give it a few months
imgursample
Just wait, that time is coming back, give it a couple months.
twelvoclocklevel
still don't; never did
Dionysus187
Well you might like the direction Musk is taking it, then.
cadesama
If journalists would just give it up, we wouldn't have to hear about it anymore. They're hopelessly addicted.
Easykehl
Zero-barrier digital publishing, in retrospect, was far too much for our species to handle.
Hal1918
The one where only those owning a newspaper or TV channel had a powerful voice?
eatlightningcrapthunder
I miss the days before the internet. We were mostly blissfully unaware of all the dumb around us.
HandoB4Javert
CommunCreator
We definitely knew there was dumb around us, but we thought it was because they were uninformed. How wrong we were.
capnadorable
I think there was less dumb because the dumb wasn’t near as able to connect, validate, and rile each other up to new levels of dumb.
uououououo
I remember back in the day whenever a certain friend would say something stupid someone in the group would generally say, "Shut up Jamie."
uououououo
(2) And that was the end of that. I miss those days sometimes.
Whitemannatee
This, social media gave these crazies a platform to connect and become an echo chamber for.
sneakypoo
You mean the time when people cared about [insert time appropriate social media platform]
fatcatdeadrat101
When social media wasn't a news source or subject.
temujin9
Back when USENET was USENET, and the nobody cared if you were a dog.
Harryteeters
Hey MySpace was awesome and Tom is a saint!
Triangle1118Energy
I mean, we can still go back to MySpace