The ongoing Elon Twitter saga: "insert demographic" melts down

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Colin the Great said:
who actually cares about having the mark?
What's with the people having a melt down per chat title but pretending they aren't having a melt down and just coming across as bitchy females that latch onto any negative thing they can use and abuse?
Elon Musk to buy OCUK in the next 30 days....
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What is it about people commenting about people commenting about Twitter? Who actually cares?
 
Colin the Great said:
who actually cares about having the mark?
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It's going to be a premium account and when a company monetises with a premium account they need to make free worse than it was.

So right now besides some poncing about with a blue mark there's nothing but give it a minute for them to degrade free experience and regularly harass you that you'd get less harassment if you paid for premium.
 
C Kent said:
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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It was 2016 (https://www.theverge.com/23199155/verified-twitter-account-how-to) when their was a proper interface given to allow more to apply, before that, it most certainly was at Twitters behest.

Werewolf said:
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).
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I always found it odd that the blue check mark came to be perceived as a status symbol.. but inevitably with entry requirements some will always be like that, I can imagine influencers are probably those vein types that care so much..

In other news, it seems UK staff are going through the normal legal process for being made redundant:
www.bbc.co.uk

Twitter UK staff get deadline over cuts consultation

Hundreds affected by Twitter's worldwide job cuts have three days to elect a representative.
www.bbc.co.uk
 
Honestly I think he's loving it at the moment, the amount of people he seems to be making mad is like a troll's wet dream, the reality of the situation is the people who are unhappy are completely powerless to do anything about it. Well you could become a billionaire yourself and make him an offer. Or for the people that get so animated , and scorned just take a breath and realise you never needed it anyway take the twelve step program.
 
Dem2k said:
Honestly I think he's loving it at the moment, the amount of people he seems to be making mad is like a troll's wet dream, the reality of the situation is the people who are unhappy are completely powerless to do anything about it. Well you could become a billionaire yourself and make him an offer. Or for the people that get so animated , and scorned just take a breath and realise you never needed it anyway take the twelve step program.
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Other than the people who were sacked I think most people are amused rather than mad. :cry:
 
Dem2k said:
Honestly I think he's loving it at the moment, the amount of people he seems to be making mad is like a troll's wet dream, the reality of the situation is the people who are unhappy are completely powerless to do anything about it. Well you could become a billionaire yourself and make him an offer. Or for the people that get so animated , and scorned just take a breath and realise you never needed it anyway take the twelve step program.
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One of his issues is that's paid way over the odds, by his own admission, and now has to turn it into something that doesn't go down as one of the worst deals in history. The fact that he seems more interested in trolling (it's actually more just he cannot not be in the spotlight) is as telling as it is so completely expected from him. He's a grade A+ assclown who happens to be very, very rich.

Now he's sacked most of the important people at Twitter I wonder who is left for him to have sex with? It's a difficult one.
 
Dem2k said:
Honestly I think he's loving it at the moment, the amount of people he seems to be making mad is like a troll's wet dream, the reality of the situation is the people who are unhappy are completely powerless to do anything about it. Well you could become a billionaire yourself and make him an offer. Or for the people that get so animated , and scorned just take a breath and realise you never needed it anyway take the twelve step program.
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The problem with trolling to this magnitude is that eventually a horde of counter-trolls will overwhelm you.
 
Colin the Great said:
blue check only means you are who you say you are though...what would change?
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Will you though. Stories out there that you won't be required to prove your identity to get the new $8 verification.

Andrew_McP said:
Lots to be troubled by here...
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Yeah a 2 tier Twitter. Unless you pay you'll get zero exposure. Personally it wouldn't effect me, I rarely do an original tweets or even retweet, I use it mainly for news/information. For those that do want some interaction though they'll be left with little choice but to pay up.
 
[FnG]magnolia said:
One of his issues is that's paid way over the odds, by his own admission, and now has to turn it into something that doesn't go down as one of the worst deals in history. The fact that he seems more interested in trolling (it's actually more just he cannot not be in the spotlight) is as telling as it is so completely expected from him. He's a grade A+ assclown who happens to be very, very rich.

Now he's sacked most of the important people at Twitter I wonder who is left for him to have sex with? It's a difficult one.
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If succeeds in turning it into a western version of WeChat, he'll flip it for 5 times what he paid for it in 10 years time
 
Trusty said:
If succeeds in turning it into a western version of WeChat, he'll flip it for 5 times what he paid for it in 10 years time
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At the moment it looks like it might like last 5 years.

He's driving away the users and advertisers, he's sacked vast numbers of skilled staff and made it very clear to the industry he doesn't care about contracts or staff, and he's showing he's unpredictable enough that you don't want to rely on him not getting in a mood and changing how things are done on a whim.
 
Werewolf said:
At the moment it looks like it might like last 5 years.

He's driving away the users and advertisers, he's sacked vast numbers of skilled staff and made it very clear to the industry he doesn't care about contracts or staff, and he's showing he's unpredictable enough that you don't want to rely on him not getting in a mood and changing how things are done on a whim.
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Loads of companies are sacking staff. Peloton are sacking 4000 people, Alibaba are sacking 10,000, Credit Suisse are sacking 5000. It's happening everywhere, the economic headwinds are dictating it. Same with advertisers, they are all pulling back on the money being spent. This hyper-politicisation is getting nauseating

digiday.com

The global ad spending slowdown is real as online media platforms brace for downturn

Cutbacks aren't just a problem for publishers and broadcasters, which is normal during economic slumps. Online media owners are now starting to feel the crunch too.
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Can only hope Twitter usage crashes, advertisers completely stop spending on it, and the company goes bankrupt.

Personally I don't use it and never will.
 
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