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

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Colonel_Klinck said:
You don't have to be born in the US but you have to be a natural born citizen, so you can be born aboard but one of your parents must be a US citizen.

Musk would be a terrible POTUS but they do have a record of electing bad choices to high office.
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So he does meet the potential criteria then? There's hope for the USA yet ;)
 
Roar87 said:
Simping for American career Politicians, I at least respected the "anti-establishment" vibe you had
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That's quite ironic coming from you.

All he has done is express an opinion, he isnt "obsessing over someone who doesn't return their affection"

Whereas your posts on Elon Musk are (now I've looked it up) the definition of simping.
 
dLockers said:
Tom, Dick or Harry in Twitter HQ were able to provide them without any questions being asked really. A lot are for sale on the black market.
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Has there actually ever been any proof to that, I've mainly seen complaints that it was inconsistent and seemed to depend at least partly on how busy they were when you contacted them/if the person doing the checking could be bothered to check things like IMDB*, which isn't ideal and an indicator of the system potentially being not up to the job (needing more resources, or better guidelines).
The only people I've seen claiming "a lot were for sale on the black market" have tended to point to things like Musk saying so, never any actual proof.

I can only imagine it getting a lot worse, after all if it was inconsistent due to potentially poor processes and a lack of human staff reviewing applications for "verified" pre musk, it's going to be like everything else post Musk, an utter shambles given he's cut back heavily on all the staff, and especially the sort of staff whose job it would have been to do those checks (the people doing verification by definition would not be "hardcore coders"), and the less said about the implementation of the "buy your cheap impersonation tick" fiasco the better.


*from comments I've seen from various actors and writers who are well known but not "A list" it could depend on getting someone at Twitter who for example knew about the work you were involved in (so the first step in verification "notable" was already passed), so someone who had 100+ IMDB ratings might have got turned down, then approved on another attempt. it's worth noting that most authors, even "successful" ones have an average income below the average, so very unlikely they'd be paying large bribes.
 
Werewolf said:
Has there actually ever been any proof to that, I've mainly seen complaints that it was inconsistent and seemed to depend at least partly on how busy they were when you contacted them/if the person doing the checking could be bothered to check things like IMDB*, which isn't ideal and an indicator of the system potentially being not up to the job (needing more resources, or better guidelines).
The only people I've seen claiming "a lot were for sale on the black market" have tended to point to things like Musk saying so, never any actual proof.

I can only imagine it getting a lot worse, after all if it was inconsistent due to potentially poor processes and a lack of human staff reviewing applications for "verified" pre musk, it's going to be like everything else post Musk, an utter shambles given he's cut back heavily on all the staff, and especially the sort of staff whose job it would have been to do those checks (the people doing verification by definition would not be "hardcore coders"), and the less said about the implementation of the "buy your cheap impersonation tick" fiasco the better.


*from comments I've seen from various actors and writers who are well known but not "A list" it could depend on getting someone at Twitter who for example knew about the work you were involved in (so the first step in verification "notable" was already passed), so someone who had 100+ IMDB ratings might have got turned down, then approved on another attempt. it's worth noting that most authors, even "successful" ones have an average income below the average, so very unlikely they'd be paying large bribes.
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I don't doubt it is true tbh. A quick Google takes you to a marketplace with plenty of accounts for sale:
www.playerup.com

Twitter Accounts for Sale - Buy Twitter Account

Buy Twitter Accounts. Twitter Accounts For Sale With Real Followers. Sell X Account.
www.playerup.com www.playerup.com

I guess an ad infinitum granting of verified but no "Know Your Customer /KYC" checks once it has been granted was always a process open for abuse over the passage of time.
 
BowdonUK said:
I feel society started collapsing when we allowed the US to become the centre of culture in the western world.

Let them get back to their cowboys and country music.

We need a Twitter-like platform in the UK.
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It is very sad that the UK hasn't and doesn't continue to plough buckets of money into UK tech start ups in the way that it needs to
 
unwashed potato! said:
It is very sad that the UK hasn't and doesn't continue to plough buckets of money into UK tech start ups in the way that it needs to
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TBH a lot of problems come from the everything in the UK is for sale for the right price mentality.

Any successful UK tech will almost certainly become a target for foreign takeover.

You would hope that sooner or later we get a UK government that will pass legislation thats in the public best interests, protect UK food production, energy production and companies that operate in areas that would be required for national defence should war break out.
(Steel, microchips, programming etc)
The can be protected and still operate in a fully commercial fashion, such as with joint ventures with US . european countries etc. But as part of that a fair proportion of staff and production should remain in the UK.
 
Mercenary Keyboard Warrior said:
TBH a lot of problems come from the everything in the UK is for sale for the right price mentality.

Any successful UK tech will almost certainly become a target for foreign takeover.

You would hope that sooner or later we get a UK government that will pass legislation thats in the public best interests, protect UK food production, energy production and companies that operate in areas that would be required for national defence should war break out.
(Steel, microchips, programming etc)
The can be protected and still operate in a fully commercial fashion, such as with joint ventures with US . european countries etc. But as part of that a fair proportion of staff and production should remain in the UK.
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I think we should make it so that startups must remain majority British owned/operated for at least 10 years as the lack of acknowledgement that we even make physical things that people use everyday (mega niche high tech products is great and all, but if the public never appreciates it...) is imo the start of the country's obituary. There is pretty much zero pride besides the person/team that did it with products that were 'designed in Britain' but made in countries with similar standard of living so there's no excuse for it not being made here.
 
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StriderX said:
I think we should make it so that startups must remain majority British owned/operated for at least 10 years as the lack of acknowledgement that we even make physical things that people use everyday (mega niche high tech products is great and all, but if the public never appreciates it...) is imo the start of the country's obituary. There is pretty much zero pride besides the person/team that did it with products that were 'designed in Britain' but made in countries with similar standard of living so there's no excuse for it not being made here.
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It's an idea, but restrictive none the less. Perhaps a rule set only if the UK start up got a big grant from the government
 
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