Ĝasper
Well-Known Member
Good wee bit of sci-fi... Understand the view point of a guy at work... Why not??
Is Elon Musk the greatest visionary or the greatest snake oil salesman of our age?
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Lurdan
old wave
magneze
🎧
They've given up already. Blue ticks being restored all over.
www.theguardian.com
Twitter restores ‘blue tick’ free of charge to celebrities in U-turn
Decision to reinstate ‘verified’ status without distinguishing paid-for from free users prompts criticism for ‘false advertising’
tommers
Fuck it, it's fine.
Turns out this was massively optimistic. What's it been? Two days?
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
Numbers work differently in this realm - pure mathemuskticks
NoXion
Craicy the Squirrel
They've given up already. Blue ticks being restored all over.
Twitter restores ‘blue tick’ free of charge to celebrities in U-turn
Decision to reinstate ‘verified’ status without distinguishing paid-for from free users prompts criticism for ‘false advertising’
Of course in true Muskian fashion, he's even managed to fuck up walking back his stupid ideas. What an absolute pillock.
Puddy_Tat
naturally fluffy
They've given up already. Blue ticks being restored all over.
Twitter restores ‘blue tick’ free of charge to celebrities in U-turn
Decision to reinstate ‘verified’ status without distinguishing paid-for from free users prompts criticism for ‘false advertising’
Some speculation that there's an american law about
"false representations regarding the origin, endorsement or association of goods or services through the wrongful use of another's distinctive mark, name, trade dress, or other device ("false endorsement" or "false association"),"
and making it look like someone has paid for a blue tick could possibly be breach of this...
meanwhile, britain first has also been given a blue tick (independent article here)
krtek a houby
Anger is Hi-NRG
And a most successful implosion, at that
Lurdan
old wave
twitter link That wanker Ben Kew.
As the farcical handing out of blue ticks to people whose twitter accounts have more than a million followers – some of them dead – continues to play out, Britain First loudly celebrated on Telegram that it had been "verified with the gold checkmark".
Independent hack Lizzie Dearden wrote this up as:
and tweeted
The only reason Britain First has a gold tick is because they are paying the subscription for it.
The price list for this service vanished from twitters 'help' pages overnight but not before it was screencapped.
According to this list the UK subscription costs £1140.00 a month and any affiliates who are 'given' (sic) blue ticks will be paying £60.00 a month for them.
I'd imagine the only 'verification' taking place is to see that the money has actually arrived.
Brainaddict
slight system overdrive
Someone pointed out the other day that the blue ticks were in fact primarily for the benefit of Twitter. Famous people really don't like being impersonated, having the reputations put at risk etc, so the blue ticks were to reassure famous people and keep them on the site, and to assure users that they were following who they thought they were following, thus making the site actually usable. The blue ticks were vital to Twitter's bottom line. I think Musk has just, belatedly, realised this. Says a lot that he doesn't have people around him who could have pointed it out earlier.They've given up already. Blue ticks being restored all over.
Twitter restores ‘blue tick’ free of charge to celebrities in U-turn
Decision to reinstate ‘verified’ status without distinguishing paid-for from free users prompts criticism for ‘false advertising’
Dystopiary
putting up a hook to hang my hopes upon
PR1Berske
Alligator in chains by the park gates.
Ah, such is the problem with linking to tweets. It's from the same account as above, a fake Disney account managed to get verified and went buckwild with it.
we might be getting into no such thing as bad pr territory now. someone might have at least realised that people forget about twitter unless it's in the news. see when Musk was jibbering on about twitter engagement being higher than ever when all the takeover noise was happening. not sure how long-term this madcap 'strategy' can be though.
Brainaddict
slight system overdrive
I saw on mastodon that they've had another uptick in activity, I'm guessing as a result of this nonsense, so I think there is such a thing as bad publicity. It seems particularly unwise to piss of official govt accounts and so on. They're not going to enjoy being at the whim of a billionaire any more than us, and if they feel there's reputational hazard will start moving off the platform -particularly if they see an alternative.
true, completely agree on official accounts/advertisers/brands/celebs - pissing off the people who make your platform valuable seemed like a monumentally stupid thing to do.
I can't help thinking some of this nonsense around ticks, and the general ongoing confusion, is deliberate but I may be giving them too much credit.
Lord Camomile
Yipchaa!
I mean, he's had a lot of people telling him that for quite some time. Like, half of Twitter.
Some maybe more politely than others...
gosub
~#
Yeah but that might have been bots ...if only twitter had had a way of telling who was whomI mean, he's had a lot of people telling him that for quite some time. Like, half of Twitter.
Some maybe more politely than others...
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
Any name-and-random-number account which posts is a bot.
Any name-and-random-number account which stands still is a well-disciplined bot.
gosub
~#
Yay my twitter is bot! Glad I don't use it that much though
Dogsauce
I’ve got Skol but I’m not a Scholar
Eight-buck chucklefucks is the correct term I believe.
BigMoaner
We will all go together
That was what getting stoned was like for me at 15, followed by 20 minutes of paranoia to ask for the ashtray
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