Musk bought Twitter, what hasn't gone wrong?

eastmen said:
It never meant anything before either cause so many people had it. Esp "journalists"
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It's my understanding it meant a lot more before than it does now as the process to get it . I'm not sure why you're quoting "journalists", whether or not you consider them real journalists is irrelevant. If they have a name they use for their business and others consider their name worth something for the information they report on, they can market that name.

The process of becoming verified was extensive:
help.twitter.com

Legacy Verification policy

help.twitter.com help.twitter.com
 
Malo said:
It's my understanding it meant a lot more before than it does now as the process to get it . I'm not sure why you're quoting "journalists", whether or not you consider them real journalists is irrelevant. If they have a name they use for their business and others consider their name worth something for the information they report on, they can market that name.

The process of becoming verified was extensive:
help.twitter.com

Legacy Verification policy

help.twitter.com help.twitter.com
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It never meant anything

Twitter Verification Has a Pricetag: $15,000

Those little blue checks don't come cheap if you aren't a household name.
www.theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com

https://twitter.com/x/status/1589529774841815040

I signal out Journalists because anyone can claim to be one. retweeting news on twitter doesn't make you one
 
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This dumpster fire reminds me of when
Homelander took control of Vought, and due to his narcissistic personality underestimated the skill necessary to manage it, and then in a flash of genius decided to fire on the spot all the technical staff.
 
digitalwanderer said:
Anyone who reports news can be one. :rolleyes:
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Sure anyone who keeps a journal can be one too

www.merriam-webster.com

Definition of JOURNALIST

a person engaged in journalism; especially : a writer or editor for a news medium; a writer who aims at a mass audience; a person who keeps a journal… See the full definition
www.merriam-webster.com www.merriam-webster.com


But I am glad you agree with me that Journalists shouldn't have a blue check mark because anyone can and is one
 
digitalwanderer said:
I don't agree with you, I don't think anyone should really be using Twitter anymore
Journalists or anyone else.
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If you want to reach a lot of people easily then twitter / facebook / instagram etc are the ways to go. There are tens of millions of people who vist that daily. In terms of a text based format you really only have twitter and facebook. There are people who make a lot of money using twitter. That is why once people are done crying they will continue to use twitter.
 
Haven't tried this out yet or looked at the trustworthiness of the extension, but the concept looks solid:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1590744939335340035

www.theverge.com

This Chrome extension tells you who paid for Twitter’s blue checkmark. - The Verge

Developers Will Seagar and Walter Lim have created a Chrome extension that will let you know who has paid $8 for Twitter Blue verification. You’ll see an “actually verified” label on original verified accounts, and a “paid for verification” with a blue dollar sign for Twitter Blue accounts. The...
www.theverge.com www.theverge.com
 
now some twitter execs are quitting, things are going great!

www.bbc.com

Musk tells Twitter staff remote working will end

The boss of the social media firm also warns workers to prepare for "difficult times", reports say.
www.bbc.com

Meanwhile, The Verge technology news site reported that chief privacy officer Damien Kieran and chief compliance officer Marianne Fogarty had also quit.
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also the security officer has quit
 
Why no one has made a Twitter blue differentiator extension?

Replacing the paid blue with gold emoji or something.

Theoretically, it should be very easy to do for someone that can do programming. As the differentiator is actually delivered to the Twitter page opened with web browser.

Just not displayed to humans. Unless you clicked the blue icon.

Edit:

Scrolled up. Oh. There's already one.
 
Musk warns of Twitter going bankrupt.

Twitter's new owner Elon Musk on Thursday raised the possibility of the social media platform going bankrupt, capping a chaotic day that included a warning from a U.S. regulator and departures of senior executives viewed as future leaders.

The billionaire told Twitter employees on a call that that he could not rule out bankruptcy, Bloomberg News reported, two weeks after buying it for $44 billion - a deal that credit experts say has left Twitter's finances in a precarious position.

Two executives - Yoel Roth and Robin Wheeler - who moderated a Twitter Spaces chat with Musk on Wednesday as he tried to assuage advertisers' concerns, have resigned, one person close to the matter told Reuters.

Roth and Wheeler did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Bloomberg and tech site Platformer reported the exits first.

Earlier on Thursday, Twitter's Chief Security Officer Lea Kissner tweeted that she had quit.
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How would we all survive?!?
 
I'm not a twitter user, I have just an account but don't use it, so I'm understanding things with excessive lag.
A.M. Twitter keeps calling the blue badge "verified account" as the B.M. Twitter did, so I wasn't able to understand, then watched an interview and all was clear.
The "verified accounts" now have nothing to do with "verified", they will be pushed up in searches, feeds and responses, so those who don't pay will be invisible to others.
Now they are "premium accounts", and public personalities that want to use twitter for publicity, foreign agents that want to derail elections, and bots that want to scam people will be forced to buy it.
What I don't understand now, is all the rhetoric about this mechanism keeping them away.
 
www.breakingnews.ie

More confusion at Twitter as Blue subscription vanishes one day after launch | BreakingNews.ie

More senior staff have quit the company and US regulators said they have ‘deep concern’ for Twitter after Elon Musk said the company could collapse.
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More confusion at Twitter as Blue subscription vanishes one day after launch​


Confusion over the direction of Twitter as a platform has continued after the sign-up option for its Twitter Blue subscription disappeared barely a day after going live and grey “Official” badges returned less than two days after Elon Musk ordered their removal.

It comes as more high-profile staff responsible for vital areas such as trust and safety, data privacy, cyber security, and complying with regulations suddenly left the social media giant.

On Friday morning, the option to sign up for Twitter Blue, which gives users a blue verification badge if they pay €8 a month had vanished from Twitter’s iOS app despite only being introduced on Thursday.

At the same time, new grey Official badges for large organisations began reappearing on some Twitter profiles less than two days after Mr Musk halted their introduction hours after their own initial launch, calling it “an aesthetic nightmare”.


Reddit suggesting folks issue disputes when Twitter refuses the refunds. The dispute will be free, where as a stop payment usually incurs a charge in the US.

https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/ys7or3/_/ivxsk5b
 
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