But he hasn't. You are conflating a blue tick with the word "verification".
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Yeah he's getting the **** taken because he's rich
You aren't good at this are you roar, you always fall back on the same lame lines.
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That orange man was, objectively, bad.
Lying about the election being stole has far reaching consequences for American democracy.
400k accounts with what dowie.
Remember the topic is verification which you believe will be improved for those big accounts that don't have a tick.
Let me say the example for a fourth time. I can obtain a blue tick for $8 of stolen money and have the same blue tick as that big account. What is the improvement in verification you said.
I'm not inviting you to ramble about stealing things, this is about the verification improvement you believe those big accounts without a tick will get.
What is the verification improvement.
Yeah cheers if i want to read a Democrat propaganda piece I'll go straight to CNN.com
Yes, it will be, if they want.
What does whether you paid for a blue tick with $8 you earned or $8 you stole have to do with anything?
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I'm guessing it'll have KYC wrapped up with it, which will provide the ID.
Like WeChat
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And the end of peasants v.s lords service, as those paying $8 are promoted and those not paying are pushed down. Wait what...
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You already get this with Twitter. Amplification of users with more engagement/followers
They've not said anything about ID AFAIK, it's piggybacking off iOS ID for verification + tightening rules on impersonation - an instant perm ban for doing it + if you change the name of a verified account the blue tick disappears temporarily. That latter feature would seem to solve the current issue of existing blue checkmark accounts being changed to use for scams.
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No, but the payment itself will have KYC. If the need to find someone who is threatening/scamming etc etc, it all becomes easier when you have payments attached
It matters because that is all the verification I need. Being able to send Twitter $8. I now get a blue tick.
I say again what is the verification improvement.
Yup indeed, apple ID is attached too, it's not foolproof but currently, there are multiple big accounts being impersonated without verification + some verified accounts being impersonated and twitter has been historically bad at dealing with it.
If you don't see any value in it then you don't need to buy it, I'm not here to sell it to you.
Apple ID required + lose blue checkmark temporarily if you change name + Perma ban for impersonation... it seems to me like they're finally taking it a bit more seriously.
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No, won't be foolproof. But it'll certainly create an extra layer of defence to unwanted behaviour
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Honestly think before you post
Do you honestly think there is no way for a company representative to prove its them.
You all need to think about why Elon is doing this
I've seen estimates that the content moderation and verification team at Twitter was around 1,500. So how does Elon cut this without it turning into a cesspit.
One option is to allow people to buy a higher status on Twitter so thier tweets are promoted over the bots and spammers. He's banking on that bot farms and scammers won't buy the
bluetick and the users that do buy it will self moderate themselves as it's linked to thier real id hence less moderation required and the cesspit is so many pages deep you don't see it.
The side benefit is he also gets your real data from the banking link and advertisers will pay more if they can directly target certain demographics.
Obviously there will be issues with fraud etc but the problem he's trying to solve is to stop uncle Billy bob's racist tweets ending up on page one next to a companies ad.
I've seen estimates that the content moderation and verification team at Twitter was around 1,500. So how does Elon cut this without it turning into a cesspit.
One option is to allow people to buy a higher status on Twitter so thier tweets are promoted over the bots and spammers. He's banking on that bot farms and scammers won't buy the
bluetick and the users that do buy it will self moderate themselves as it's linked to thier real id hence less moderation required and the cesspit is so many pages deep you don't see it.
The side benefit is he also gets your real data from the banking link and advertisers will pay more if they can directly target certain demographics.
Obviously there will be issues with fraud etc but the problem he's trying to solve is to stop uncle Billy bob's racist tweets ending up on page one next to a companies ad.
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What data from a banking link is he going to get.
Many places now offer one time credit cards, or cards that can be linked to unvalidated non KYC places.
Plus, even normal legit cards don't hand over data, just the minimum you need to pass to authorise the transaction
Many places now offer one time credit cards, or cards that can be linked to unvalidated non KYC places.
Plus, even normal legit cards don't hand over data, just the minimum you need to pass to authorise the transaction
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I hope he sorts out the bookmark section. It needs to be far more useful, so basic at the moment.
And he is going to sort out the search function as well. Praise the lord, that has needed doing for a long time
And he is going to sort out the search function as well. Praise the lord, that has needed doing for a long time
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A journalist IS a notable person though, at least if they're working for say a large news organisation.
Most blue ticks were people like actors, authors, companies...
And you're making the exact arguement that I'm trying to make FOR verification with your "but people with a tick impersonated other accounts that's how scams were tried", except that before the paid for tick to do it you had to either manage to get verified when the criteria required was a lot more than "here take my money" and usually required hacking into someone's account...
Now to do a blue tick scam all you need is someone's card number.
And good luck with twitter cracking down on impersonation when they've got rid of most of their staff, including the people whose job used to be to deal with scams and verify users properly.
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