Balanced perfectly by the ultrawoke and remoaners of course
Yeah, damn those idiots not wanting to lose some freedom and economic growth LOL
The ongoing Elon Twitter saga: "insert demographic" melts down
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Yeah, damn those idiots not wanting to lose some freedom and economic growth LOL
King's been a screeching man baby for years, his little meltdown regarding Musk is nothing new
Given all sorts of no marks have it now you can argue the 'point' of the checkmark was removed a long time ago.
I'm not sure it has plus if there is monetisation for the big accounts then presumably that could involve signing up for the blue checkmark to get the content creator rebate or whatever he's proposing.
Likewise for others, the offer of increased visibility etc.. is perhaps worth it.
One thing that would be nice is the ability to sign up for the benefits and *not* display the checkmark, that could be popular with some people using twitter for networking/business, perhaps if you're not a content creator/not generating revenue but you want some of the other benefits.
I mean there was the whole super follower thing, people who were fans of some twitter personality could click on super follow and then they get marked out in the replies as being a massive simp, it's a ridiculous thing to pay for and they were mocked, I think some might be wary of the blue checkmark thing if they're not creating content for a large audience etc.. then it might not suit what they want so the option to have the benefits but toggle the thing off could have a market.
Aye, the content creator aspect has got quite a few people interested that I follow on other social media
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They aren't paying $8 for it are they and reports have it rasing around $7m in total so far. So that covers a smidgen over 2 days of Twitter loses.
What the heck does "all sorts of no mark" even mean? The blue checkmark verifies the person is who they say they are (a bit badly because Twitter aren't competent enough to remove it if a verified user changes their name but hey ho), that's all.
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No, the blue check mark had more qualities
X Verification requirements - how to get the blue check
The blue Verified badge on X lets people know that an account of public interest is authentic. Learn about which types of accounts become Verified.
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It's the notable part.. it was not available to the man in the street..
However, I don't see how $8 a month to the man in the street would be useful either..
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Yeah, it was losing $300m/year when Musk bought it, and he loaded it with debt so now it's worse than that.
Yes, there were criteria for going through the verification process, so they weren't available to all and sundry, but the entire point of the mark was to verify the person is who they say they are. That's all it does: tells you the person is who they say they are.
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I tried to explain that the "no marks" are those people who wheren't notable and couldn't attain the fabled 'blue mark', simple really, I don't really care one way or the other, I can just see that the blue mark obviously was a badge of status not available to the man in the street.
C Kent said "Given all sorts of no marks have it now" so he can't be referring to people who couldn't attain the mark. It's true the blue mark has some very minimal status value, but that isn't and wasn't its purpose. It's purpose was to limit the ability of users to imitate people and brands. Removing it - or the even worse situation Musk has created - removes that protection from the platform and makes it a worse place to be for everyone.
It also, if the new paid for mark is anything similar to it in looks means that Musk has quite probably opened twitter up to a legal minefield that the original blue check was meant to defuse.
Especially as Musk has got rid of most of the people that used to deal with things like fake accounts and impersonators, so the next time someone takes Twitter to court for allowing someone to impersonate them/breach their trademark twitter can't even now say "we were making a best effort to prevent this (entirely foreseeable thing) happening".
I find it funny how many people seem to think the blue check was entirely for the benefit of the person who had it, rather than it being primarily a way for Twitter to remove some of it's legal liabilities and I suspect a number of blue ticks would have been given to people who'd had attempts to impersonate them (as was the original impetus for the first ones).
i've been seeing some interesting comments in various places about how/why musk firing people he didn't seem to think were doing much may not be a great idea, including the fact that a lot of programmers/engineers don't actually produce a lot of written code/hardware changes every day because a lot of their time is spent analysing problems and trying to do preventative work, as if you're doing your job right in those sorts of roles you shouldn't be running around putting out proverbial fires, you should be preventing them from happening in the first place by doing things like observing performance of the hardware/code and trying to understand what is going on before you touch anything (and this doesn't provide a nice easy to see metric for "work done" because most of it doesn't involve writing new or actively physically doing anything, as the main thing you're using is your brain to read/understand/analyse).
They're paying $4.99 for it and it's got fewer features than this new verified thingie.
That's known as "rest and vest", perhaps a bit exaggerated in the show, it's a bit different, rather it's employees of a firm that's been taken over just bumbling on until their options or RSUs vest and they get their big payout.
Well yes, to get the blue checkmark previously (going back a good 5 years plus) you had to have some degree of 'fame' within an industry, nowadays all sorts of failures within a chosen profession can obtain the checkmark. In future if someone is stupid enough to fall for a verified "@E1onMusk" then they deserve everything they get.
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