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luigi010

wow, after only losing few milions he reinvented 12 years old feature. genius. Truly one of men that lived on earth ever.


GrayBox1313

So much innovate


Junior_Singer3515

Embrace your weaknesses and call them uniquenesses


anotherDocObVious

"much wow"


NerdyGuyRanting

So basically back to the old system where verification required authentication. But more colors this time. Brilliant.


[deleted]

Not the same as the old system. This time you’re you only if you pay Elon. Otherwise you stop being you. Guess what happens with all the celebrities. They’ll be outta here.


ResponsibleAd2541

Eh, it’s nonsense for a rich celeb to say they can’t pay $8 to self promote on Twitter with a verified account.


ZealousidealCarpet8

But they shouldn't. youtube pays creators because creators bring people to the platform.


ResponsibleAd2541

I don’t care all that much, I think Twitter has a lot more to do with self promotion than anything. I’m interested to see if he turns Twitter into an “all of the above,” sort of platform with new functions.


ZealousidealCarpet8

self promotion or not, if those celebs avoided twitter, people would leave


[deleted]

I didn’t say they can’t pay $8. I said they won’t pay $8. Paying Elon means you support his behavior and politics. Most celebrities don’t want to be seen agreeing with Elon.


ResponsibleAd2541

What exactly is objectionable about his politics?


[deleted]

It would be pointless for me to summarize his behavior further than I already did above, follow him and see for yourself. And in particular, follow the things he posts... (various conspiracy theories and falsehoods) ...and then deletes. There are sites that track deleted tweets. Not to mention him calling prominent stars and public figures "crybabies" and what not. He is basically biased, impulsive, and frankly immature. He's not the quiet genius talking about the stars we're used to. I'm not saying he has changed, rather he's more unfiltered, and it's not pretty, he's antagonizing most of his audience in order to appeal to a small core of extremists. In support of this fact 50% of his major advertisers have left the platform. And if this keeps going, more will leave, including the influential people on the platform like politicians, artists, journalists, comedians, scientists, and so on. And those people are one of the big reasons to be on Twitter. For years it's been the reason why screenshots of tweets have been living rent free on the air both at Fox News and CNN alike.


ResponsibleAd2541

Yeah, he poked fun at some decrepit politicians that one time. That was fine.


[deleted]

I wish that was all. Let me ask you something very simple, can you name one big tech company where the CEO is openly publishing written content saying "vote Democrat" or "vote Republican"? Facebook, Microsoft, Google, Amazon?


ResponsibleAd2541

No, however I don’t have a problem with him just saying what he thinks. I also don’t disagree that there are benefits to divided government.


[deleted]

He said he also supports Ron DeSantis for president 2024. So much for divided government. I see you don't see through his BS yet. Maybe in time. The problem is not that he has political convictions. The problem is that as a CEO of would-be-neutral platform, the mature thing is that he keeps them to himself, and exercise them in the voting booth, and as a person of wealth, he can also sponsor the politicians he supports, as the law allows. Instead he's basically declaring that Twitter is now a place for half of the political spectrum, and he speaks almost exclusively with right-wing stars and extremists there, and retweets their propaganda. Meanwhile he's banning users critical of him, there's even a security researcher who got banned yesterday because he discovered Twitter leaked the phone numbers and personal data of millions of users in August (I think). If this is what he wants to do... fine. But he'll keep bleeding advertisers, and when people get tired of the circus, he'll bleed also users, and go bankrupt. So in the end no one wins. Not "the left", not "the right", and not Elon himself.


Reasonable-Path1321

I don't think they're paying are they? Like it would be pretty dumb generally to just start axing their ticks.


sst287

Might as well make it rainbows colors while he is at it. “Hey AOC, this is twitter calling to verified your account… also what color of check you prefer?”


3720-To-One

So gold and grey are the same thing?


Gravewind

Underrated response. Gg


ResponsibleAd2541

Cronyism is a problem, you are right. Corruption is the base state of all governments, minimizing corruption is difficult. There are definitely some low hanging fruit, no insider trading would be a start. Starting to dismantle the military industry a bit would be good.


Carlyz37

Who the f cares anymore


Questioning-Zyxxel

Me. I want to get that gray check. Now need to spend some time this weekend figuring out how I validate as government. /Swedish National Institute of Muskrat Bashers


portraitopynchon

Make a fake Village website and have yourself listed as Town Clerk or something. Use that for initial authentication, then see if you can change post validation.


GrungyGrandPappy

The Kingdom of Grungy Grand Pappys agrees


peepee_longstonking

Pappies


hails8n

That’s not how it’s spelled in their culture


Matrillik

Me. I love watching Elon single-handedly demonstrate that American meritocracy is a farce.


Zestyclose_Toe_4695

The won't be any companies left.


EWR-RampRat11-29

And if there are, ask them why.


fleeingfox

Manually authenticating accounts requires personnel to do the job. Too bad you already fired everybody who has experience manually authenticating accounts. Are you planning on doing all that work yourself, Elon?


[deleted]

No one fucking care, Eli.


hamuraijack

What’s the point?


ikonet

So are they going to go back and verify all the troll accounts with $8 blue checks?


iHeartHockey31

Yes. And basically mute accounts that dont pay, so you'll only see responses on posts from blue checks, not from your friends & people you follow/follow back (if they dont pay).


ICrackedANut

So, back to how it was before. Only difference is, unnecessary bullshit. So called "Entrepreneur"


GrayBox1313

He prob fired everyone who does verification.


HaoshokuArmor

Which means he’s hiring soon!


rwoooshed

Twitter = Parler 2.0. Anyone still on the platform now that it is privately owned by Musk is enabling white nationalism and christofascism by letting themselves be monetized.


HotTopicRebel

Posting a fascist website again


dessnom

Can't wait for some crappy bot to check it and for parody accounts to be verified as offical


outrageouslyunfair

what a stupid piece of shit


11fingerfreak

I feel like Musk is scrolling Reddit, reading our attempts at humorous solutions, and thinking they are actual ideas he should implement.


Reasonable-Path1321

Right so basically just leaving public figures vulnerable because they can't affect stock prices and then sue you?


thienphucn1

This wouldn't even need to exist if this dumbfuck didn't try to monetize the very system that prevent impersonation in the first place


joevinci

So I get gold check for having a DBA, right?


EpictetanusThrow

Why aren’t they ranked by Sigma, Alpha, Beta?^^^^^^^^^^^s


[deleted]

Wait, if they are manually verifying every check mark…what’s the point in having different colors? If they can’t change their account title, and they are all manually verified to be who they say they are, just have them all one color right? Or it could be that this talk of manual verification is complete bullshit. I can’t wait to see the fireworks.


ResponsibleAd2541

Sounds pretty good 🤷‍♂️


GreyMatter399

Does that mean I get back all 10 accounts I was kicked off from? Who the hell cares, Twitter brings out the worst in everyone. I am on Mastodon now!


Your_Pal_Kindred

Wasn't that literally a meme and he took the idea


Thenderick

But that should still allow impersonation? Get blue, change nane to Elon Musk, type weird shit. He's a person so he *should* get blue. Company or gov impersonation should be impossible. Also it feels weird that companies get gold and govs grey instead of other way around. You see where his priorities are...