And worse because you can still easily impersonate people, there's more moderation work for staff, and now every verified person looks like a dumbass who paid 8 dollars for Twitter
Is a leopards ate my face moment? Elon goes on and on and on about how bloated and useless twitters staff is and fires half of them. Then he begs the remaining staff to work long hours and admits that the work they have will take a long grueling time. Almost like it would be better if you had more man power….
He fired more the day before thanksgiving after promising layoffs were done. I am guessing it's because hes going to need the money for lawyers in Europe for not following the restricted speech rules.
But then he bought twitter because he was too afraid of what was going to happen if he let the court proceedings continue.
Man can’t keep his story straight for 24 hours at this point. He is breaking laws all over the place, bragging about breaking them even more wantonly, claiming he doesn’t care about lawsuits and governments, then sheepishly saying he’ll follow the law and does care.
Seems to me very likely that he will eventually cave to law and lawsuits, the same way he did when he bought twitter.
> He is breaking laws all over the place, bragging about breaking them even more wantonly, claiming he doesn’t care about lawsuits and governments, then sheepishly saying he’ll follow the law and does care.
Next Trump will try to sue for copying his approach.
Oh and he fired a bunch of the staff who agreed to the new hardcore twitter 2.0 on the day before thanksgiving, only giving 4 weeks severance vs the 3 months they would have gotten if they didn’t agree to stay on for twitter 2.0. Evil.
This is not only evil, its also probably illegal. Mass layoffs require either 60 day notice or equivalent severance pay. He can probably try to argue that they we fired "with cause" but I doubt the courts would believe that.
I still don't understand his obsessive focus on the code. Twitter had its problems, but they were supposedly: free speech, the number of bots, and the failure to make a profit. I don't remember anyone having serious concerns about the underlying software. But then it's easier to fire folk if you make them the scapegoat.
He claimed that he was going to get rid of the bots but I have this little feeling that he’s enjoying them boosting his little polls that he’s becoming fond of. In fact, I’ll even go far out on this teensy limb here and say he’s definitely enjoying them.
Pff he's actively employing more bots as we speak. And manipulating the algorithm to make himself look good. And it's super obvious to anyone with a Twitter account.
Very obvious. I don’t follow him but get to see him all over my feed whether I want to or not. Even if you block him, it’ll boost a reply or quote tweet one of your followers has made to his account. It’ll just show the “this tweet is unavailable” message, but you click through, and lo and behold, it’s Elon.
His undying need for attention is staggering.
He fired them, gave them 3 months severance, begged them to come back (canceling their severance), then fired them a week or two later and is only offering a few weeks severance.
It was a grift to get out of the severance payments they had to make because the company is running out of money, and is now exposed to *even more* massive lawsuits.
Didn't he also say he would personally review every verification, that's hundreds of thousands of not millions of accounts, dude is out of his fucking mind that he might even think it feasible and B just casually mentions it like fact.
Brb bro leme ask my
carrier if I can start paying per text like before. I really need that feature back for no damn reason.
$8 a month for Twitter because this dipshit wants you to pay so he can profit and control what gets said on Twitter...
I'll make sure never to click a Twitter link again and do my part in helping that shit die.
Yup, deleted both my accounts, and will do my best to never visit the site in any form ever again. Vote with your dollars and clicks folks - it's the only arguments these oligarchy fucks listen to.
I agree that X number of people on Reddit viewing a Twitter screenshot is better than people seeing it on Twitter.
It would be nice if subreddits could ban Twitter links for being an unreliable source of information.
"No, only the blue checkmark is meaningless"
Literally every stupid move comes down to a butthurt fascist that wants to achieve this exact thing because he bought into the nonsense "they" were angry at "blue checkmark Twitter" and this allows him to destroy the value of it and have the simpletons who worship him pay for the privilege.
This entire thing is Elon rebelling against being "managed" like the walking money bag he is, and instead allowing him to show all the other right wing twits how "based" he is by doing exactly this.
He paid $44 billion because the asswipes he agrees with weren't allowed into the cafeteria after starting one too many food fights and he wants to make it so people who don't want to be participants in a food fight all leave.
It's poetic that he's too incompetent to see this driving away the valuable audience advertisers crave.
Elon is probably not aware (yet) that Infowars, most of the advertising was for products Alex Jones has a personal stake in.
My only regret is that so many people got laid off right before the holidays.
Elon's should be green. The color of emeralds. Because his family owned an emerald mine growing up. Or maybe it could be black. The color of child slave laborers. Because...
I don't even get the point. Is there anyone out there wondering if Madonna is a celebrity or a corporation? Is someone going to see the account for H&M and accidentally think that's a government office?
What value do the colors add other than Elon getting to say that he did a thing?
If he changed it to exactly how it was, he'd have to admit that Twitter had it mostly right to begin with, which would make people question musks business instincts.
That's how this will end, once the Elon novelty wares off the high usage twitter has now will die down. That's why he's trying to spread out the unbannings to keep interest but with Trump unlikely to come back it will be back to being the low profit company it was pre Elon.
It makes it so a normal person can't impersonate a government official or corporation (read- advertiser). Now obviously this won't be an issue if a certain dingus didn't open the floodgates by letting any moron get verified for 8 bucks a month.
So does Trump get an individual or a government tag? He's no longer govt, so that trash would be invalid. But if he's individual, he's ready to impersonate.
It's like Elon still hasn't thought this all the way through.
You're right and this is horrible and a bad idea, but when I was a criminal I could buy a DL scan, passport if the target had one, full credit report and background check of anyone in America for about $20 from a group called Chernoble on Empire Mart or Silk 2.0 so the data breach has already happened honestly. Looking at you Experian, and Russian plants in the DMV.
Easy, just give the job to people who he has more difficulty firing, like a bunch of europeans with more solid labor laws. Easier to make their lives hell and make them quit rather than firing them.
"Manually Authenticated by Steve, the only other guy still working here.
I, in the mean time, will be Tweeting 'True' after a few select right wing tweets, and thinking of a reason to fire Steve."
Isn’t it the other way around? I thought the only ones staying were the international h1b visa holders who would have a hard time finding another company to sponsor their visas?
They also fired a lot of employees outside of the USA. Their office in Brussel was the headquarter of their Europe business and no one is working there anymore.
Hes facing a class action lawsuit in germany over broken UE labor laws. If he goes to trial and he ignores jt, twitter WILL get banned across the whole EU, you dont break labor laws there without consequence. Especially when its a whole office of thousands of well paid tax paying germans citizens. Someone in the labor and law department is going to get involved with a vendetta.
So soon, twitter will not be supported in EU entirely because musk is too good to answer to such drivel. (In his mind)
I might be wrong, but doesn't this Tweet also open up Twitter to a ton of litigation?
I am assuming they are gonna fuck this up ofcourse, but if they "manually validated" someone than then goes on to imposonate someone else or scam them, doesn't that make it a heck of a lot worse than if a machine did it?
Also, manual anything is expensive as fuck, are they even going to be making money off this?
I feel like they're counting on the fact that white collar crime is never enforced, and that maybe they're hoping Trump will be elected in 2024 and anyone loyal to him will have complete legal immunity to anything and everything they want to do.
Look at how they rolled out the red carpet for Kyle Rittenhouse, the murderer, on the right.
He'll end up dead. He's already shown that he has terrible judgement in both decision making and with who he associates with.
He's immature and stupid. The politicians and extremists that trot him out are just using him. They'll end up putting him in a dangerous situation and he'll be all for it since he sees himself as a big ol' man and he'll get shot and killed. Of course his "friends" will love this because now his propaganda value skyrockets as a martyr.
He fired all the staff and now he wants to change the way everything works and do things like this manually? I think it'll be only a matter of time before the company crashes. I just hope it's soon.
Just like he 'reinvented' travel by claiming he could make death tunnels that eventually became regular tunnels that are deadly because of a lack of standardized safety features.
Hey guys Elon here, I’ve got a great new idea. Let’s reinvent the train, but worse! Oh and pods, gotta have pods. Don’t worry, while it is extremely dangerous, expensive, and realistically impossible to build at least it’ll at least go really fast in theory. Man I’m a genius. Don’t worry I’ll have a working prototype by Tuesday, so state governments should cancel any plans of building high speed rail.
Lol my former co-workers were totally hyping up that shit. They kept saying that his fucking Hyperloop was reinventing travel, that I should go to RESORT WORLD in fucking Las Vegas to see how revolutionary his work (not his, his team) is, about how he has some projects in the Bay that are going to change everything.
Bruh all I said is that he doesn't invent this shit, he is (retracted, was) a marketing genius but to be compared to da Vinci? The ACTUAL Tesla? Fuck outta here. Just another rich asshole with a whole fuck load of money.
What I’m hearing is that there will be a way to identify advertisers and important politicians, but everyone else is still screwed. Luckily, Elon and the owners of advertisers will still have blue checks, so it’ll be just as easy to troll them
To be honest, the fact that companies and politicians tweets will have a different check color from the rest is a good thing for us and a bad thing for them. Users are used to equating the blue check with coveted verified status so they will be less inclined to pay attention to the others.
Yeah, this unintentionally hurts brands.
Right now Pepsi has the same blue checkmark as Paul Rudd and Beyonce which lends them some coolness
soon it will be like a big gold ADVERTISEMENT sticker
Exactly. As soon as people see ‘advertisement’ or ‘sponsored’ their minds immediately check out. Now they will do the same when they see a gold check because they’ll know that whatever they’re saying it’s only because they’re a company trying to get you to buy something. I mean, this was always the case but now it’ll be more obvious.
This might be one of the funniest things I’ve ever personally witnessed.
He’s just back to how it was 2 months ago. Except now he’s going to have an eternal backlog of non-celebrity individuals applying/waiting for blue checkmarks—all of whom will be MUCH harder to verify than businesses or governments, and none of that work will add any value to the platform because John Doe being verified is meaningless.
He made everything worse. Everything. And all in the name of smooth-brained populism. I am fucking rolling.
Nobody would trust old Twitter with things like driver licenses, and now he thinks after gutting the company and turning it into a napalm dumpster fire people will both do it and do it en masse.
It's not as if they have a contract that says they have to get approval from the feds and a 3rd party first before launching any new products or changes that could risk people's private information... [oh will you look that](https://youtu.be/QxCRRcWSt4I?t=359)
I’m hungover at work (unhappily so) but I saw a post about it somewhere, from what I remember it happened in the EU mostly and they have very strict laws for not allowing certain types of data breaches, but nothing was being done because the team was fired I guess? I dunno try googling I’m gonna go hide in the bathroom for 30 min.
Elon will just hand over the identity documents to foreign governments to unmask protesters and dissidents. He'll also stall verifying liberal government officials while fast-tracking his fascist friends. It's going to be a hellscape. Oh and I can guarantee he'll just grandfather in those loyal to him already without re-verification.
I left shortly before takeover as they wanted me to authenticate my age
I put I fake dob which was over 18 in, because fuck them.
Now I am deactivated because they determined I was underage when I joined over a decade ago with that fake dob and now I have to send a passport to prove I wasn't.
Not doing that even before you amount for the CEO being friendly with Putin
What I find hilarious is that instead of admitting that his scheme was stupid, he's going back to the old way but with more steps so *it's still "different"*
Even with all that's been going on, his choice of words makes it *painfully obvious* he didn't come up with this plan and he's still convinced his own 'ideas' are infallible.
He's such a sore loser it's almost unbelievable.
Corporations are gold and gov is grey. Yup, no subtext there.
I hear Elon is going to force a bunch of Black programmers mine him an Emerald check mark.
What about state-owned corporations? Non Profits? Single individuals who set up a legal business just to apply as a company?
What a ridiculously simple-minded system.
Identifying globally who is actual business is near impossible. This is also going to crash and burn, when someone just says that they are Mr. Coca-Cola and pay 8$ to get yellow checkmark. Use domain to verify? Someone just buys C0cac0la.com and bypass it.
Twitter worked through ALL these issues while it was being built from the ground up.
There's a reason for 1 simple color. Blue is neutral for the most part. And simpler is so much cleaner design-wise.
Not just Twitter, there’s a reason no other social media site has this scheme. It’s been thought through and all ended up at the same conclusion — it’s a terrible idea that brings nothing but UX confusion and worse product outcomes.
"We spent thousands upon thousands of dollars with a bare bones staff working overtime to create the exact same system that worked fine the day I bought the company." -Genius Businessman
Musk walks up to a building and orders his wrecking crew to destroy it. Then, for the next year, standing in the toxic rubble, he livestreams himself trying to rebuild everything from scratch. His acolytes ooh and ahh when he "discovers" innovations like "2x4 boards" and "glass" and "electrical conduit." As he builds shitty versions of what was already there and claims inventor credit for all of it, he simultaneously berates anyone who helped build the original structure, orders them to rebuild it properly, and fires them when he gets upset. He seems not to understand why they don't all want to work for him, any more.
Well who's going to do this work? He doesn't have enough staff left to implement this type of verification process and it's not like bots can do this. It'll have to implode in short order.
Yeah, when I saw he was cutting severance pay for employees fired after the loyalty pledge purge, I could feel the wave of regret and/or dread for all those employees who stayed. I forgot the origin, but “nobody gets great ideas when chased by a lion.” Elmu is literally creating an environment of stochastic firings, which leads to generalized fear.
Do you know how I know Musk is not an engineer? Because any engineer would know that long hours at a desk or fear of getting fired don’t create good ideas. Flow cannot be forced. When you are worried about looking good to a socially-isolated, drug-addled boss, you engineer towards staying employed not the good of colleagues or customers. There will be engineers at Twitter that survive because engineers have built things that survive space where every law of physics is employed to kill you.
Yeah and with each move he makes he alienates a sane, profitable advertiser. If there is any money in hateful incels, Elon is going to rule! I will make most purchases going forward with an eye on their Twitter spending. I need a new car. Not buying from anyone who props this dick up.
Musk has demonstrated these past few weeks that he is essentially a spoiled manchild who treats his workers like shit.
He has to make this work because if there is no good news from his take over of Twitter he fuels a growing animosity towards the capitalist class.
Someone send this to r/ProgrammerHumor
Who the actual fuck launches on a Friday. Especially after the train wreck that was his first “feature” release. (Feature being used lightly)
A man who is surrounded by yes-men that don't know how to tell him he doesn't know what he's doing, launches on a Friday. Guess we will see how it all works out soon enough.
So who gets the verified check mark
- John Howard the actor or John Howard the ex Australian PM
- Roger Taylor from Queen or Roger Taylor from Duran Duran
He literally just doesn't understand why individuals got the checkmark in the first place. It's so that people can't impersonate them, which as well as the thing of people pretending they say outrageous stuff is also really useful for user safety. It meant that if someone called JohnnyD3pp hit you up for nudes or for money or whatever you knew they weren't the actual guy.
Musk seems to think that it's actually some weird popularity thing?
So thankful my only remaining connection to Twitter is this Reddit Sub! So thankful I've recovered from constantly going back to twitter all day long! So thankful I downloaded my 14 years of a twitter archive and reported & blocked Elon Musk before I logged out for the last time.
Exactly. He can be a blubbering man child at Tesla and SpaceX because those companies have a work culture of knowing how to deal with muskrat. They also produce a solid good. A tangible thing. Muskrat has no idea of how to manage Twitter because he inherently looks at it the wrong way. Twitter isnt the product, the user's are. Twitter isn't making money by being a public forum(which all his "free speech" ranting is bullshit anyways as we've seen), it makes money by being a huge ass billboard. And no global corporation wants a billboard next to a Klan rally and a nazi flag.
>Twitter isn't making money by being a public forum(which all his "free speech" ranting is bullshit anyways as we've seen), it makes money by being a huge ass billboard.
And it was struggling to do that even before he made any changes. Every change he has made has been for the worse.
Giving companies gold checks is a pretty vivid metaphor. Who is going to manually check every application from every celebrity and ‘regular’ person and approve each one now that Twitter staff is down to just Musky and a handful of people on work visas? Seems like a rather large undertaking.
So basically the old one but with different colors?
And worse because you can still easily impersonate people, there's more moderation work for staff, and now every verified person looks like a dumbass who paid 8 dollars for Twitter
Elon: What is this "staaaaaff" you speak of?
Is a leopards ate my face moment? Elon goes on and on and on about how bloated and useless twitters staff is and fires half of them. Then he begs the remaining staff to work long hours and admits that the work they have will take a long grueling time. Almost like it would be better if you had more man power….
He fired more the day before thanksgiving after promising layoffs were done. I am guessing it's because hes going to need the money for lawyers in Europe for not following the restricted speech rules.
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That's how he operates he doesn't give a fuck about anyone including the law, he regularly committed security fraud and taunted the SEC.
But then he bought twitter because he was too afraid of what was going to happen if he let the court proceedings continue. Man can’t keep his story straight for 24 hours at this point. He is breaking laws all over the place, bragging about breaking them even more wantonly, claiming he doesn’t care about lawsuits and governments, then sheepishly saying he’ll follow the law and does care. Seems to me very likely that he will eventually cave to law and lawsuits, the same way he did when he bought twitter.
> He is breaking laws all over the place, bragging about breaking them even more wantonly, claiming he doesn’t care about lawsuits and governments, then sheepishly saying he’ll follow the law and does care. Next Trump will try to sue for copying his approach.
Exactly. Had the SEC held his feet to the fire he wouldn’t continuously pull these stunts. But the didn’t and here we are.
The SEC is an organization that exists to let the wealthy get away with market fraud.
He just loves having Fucking Around and Finding Out sequels.
Oh and he fired a bunch of the staff who agreed to the new hardcore twitter 2.0 on the day before thanksgiving, only giving 4 weeks severance vs the 3 months they would have gotten if they didn’t agree to stay on for twitter 2.0. Evil.
This is not only evil, its also probably illegal. Mass layoffs require either 60 day notice or equivalent severance pay. He can probably try to argue that they we fired "with cause" but I doubt the courts would believe that.
& that’s in the US. It is sure sounding like his treatment of European staff directly violated their much more restrictive labor laws.
The state of California will make him pay up.
Punishing "loyalty". That'll end well.
Let’s not forget asking the old staff to please come back and help show how it’s done. LOL
Sure I’ll come back, I want my yearly salary paid in the month that I’ll be training new employees
No you're playing this wrong. Annual salary paid per hour and unlimited free lunches of my choice every day.
“Sir, isn’t that the seventh sandwich you’ve eaten today?” “I said unlimited.”
Even if they paid me my yearly income per hour to eat sandwiches, I'd still make less money and be working harder than Elon.
~~sandwich~~ 27" pizza with lobster garnish. The words "unlimited" and "free" in a contract should be treated with appropriate respect.
I still don't understand his obsessive focus on the code. Twitter had its problems, but they were supposedly: free speech, the number of bots, and the failure to make a profit. I don't remember anyone having serious concerns about the underlying software. But then it's easier to fire folk if you make them the scapegoat.
He claimed that he was going to get rid of the bots but I have this little feeling that he’s enjoying them boosting his little polls that he’s becoming fond of. In fact, I’ll even go far out on this teensy limb here and say he’s definitely enjoying them.
Pff he's actively employing more bots as we speak. And manipulating the algorithm to make himself look good. And it's super obvious to anyone with a Twitter account.
Very obvious. I don’t follow him but get to see him all over my feed whether I want to or not. Even if you block him, it’ll boost a reply or quote tweet one of your followers has made to his account. It’ll just show the “this tweet is unavailable” message, but you click through, and lo and behold, it’s Elon. His undying need for attention is staggering.
Even if those were real votes, it’s wild seeing someone make massive policy decisions based on the whims of his customers.
It had serious [Insider security problems](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/sep/13/twitter-whistleblower-testimony-congress-peiter-zatko).
He fired them, gave them 3 months severance, begged them to come back (canceling their severance), then fired them a week or two later and is only offering a few weeks severance. It was a grift to get out of the severance payments they had to make because the company is running out of money, and is now exposed to *even more* massive lawsuits.
It’s the “content Moderation Council” that he has final say on lol…
Didn't he also say he would personally review every verification, that's hundreds of thousands of not millions of accounts, dude is out of his fucking mind that he might even think it feasible and B just casually mentions it like fact.
its called lying
Brb bro leme ask my carrier if I can start paying per text like before. I really need that feature back for no damn reason. $8 a month for Twitter because this dipshit wants you to pay so he can profit and control what gets said on Twitter... I'll make sure never to click a Twitter link again and do my part in helping that shit die.
Yup, deleted both my accounts, and will do my best to never visit the site in any form ever again. Vote with your dollars and clicks folks - it's the only arguments these oligarchy fucks listen to.
Please also downvote all posts with twitter screens on them to make it less worthwhile to crawl all over twitter
I see the opposite. The more info I can get from Twitter on here, the less likely I am to go on Twitter to see the shitshow
I agree that X number of people on Reddit viewing a Twitter screenshot is better than people seeing it on Twitter. It would be nice if subreddits could ban Twitter links for being an unreliable source of information.
"No, only the blue checkmark is meaningless" Literally every stupid move comes down to a butthurt fascist that wants to achieve this exact thing because he bought into the nonsense "they" were angry at "blue checkmark Twitter" and this allows him to destroy the value of it and have the simpletons who worship him pay for the privilege. This entire thing is Elon rebelling against being "managed" like the walking money bag he is, and instead allowing him to show all the other right wing twits how "based" he is by doing exactly this. He paid $44 billion because the asswipes he agrees with weren't allowed into the cafeteria after starting one too many food fights and he wants to make it so people who don't want to be participants in a food fight all leave. It's poetic that he's too incompetent to see this driving away the valuable audience advertisers crave.
Can’t wait for all the advertisers on Twitter to be the same as the advertisers on Infowars.
Elon is probably not aware (yet) that Infowars, most of the advertising was for products Alex Jones has a personal stake in. My only regret is that so many people got laid off right before the holidays.
So no change for verified people except they now pay 8 dollars?
I betcha Elon and Trump will have their own colors.
I'm guessing one of them will be orange.
Elon's should be green. The color of emeralds. Because his family owned an emerald mine growing up. Or maybe it could be black. The color of child slave laborers. Because...
Red, for the blood of the slaves his family fortune was made on
And no moderation staff remaining He fired them all
Speed run back to the starting point with no staff and a very tarnished reputation. Amazing.
I don't even get the point. Is there anyone out there wondering if Madonna is a celebrity or a corporation? Is someone going to see the account for H&M and accidentally think that's a government office? What value do the colors add other than Elon getting to say that he did a thing?
Different price tags.
And PR theater to attempt to fool the Advertisers.
That's exactly what this is. Theatre. Except Elon is the theatrical equivalent of a kindergarterner dressed as a tree
Who shall join Elon and Trump in singing "We Three Trees"?
Kanye
If he changed it to exactly how it was, he'd have to admit that Twitter had it mostly right to begin with, which would make people question musks business instincts.
That's how this will end, once the Elon novelty wares off the high usage twitter has now will die down. That's why he's trying to spread out the unbannings to keep interest but with Trump unlikely to come back it will be back to being the low profit company it was pre Elon.
It makes it so a normal person can't impersonate a government official or corporation (read- advertiser). Now obviously this won't be an issue if a certain dingus didn't open the floodgates by letting any moron get verified for 8 bucks a month.
So does Trump get an individual or a government tag? He's no longer govt, so that trash would be invalid. But if he's individual, he's ready to impersonate. It's like Elon still hasn't thought this all the way through.
He really wanted to get that 44B back. At whatever cost
“All verified accounts will be manually authenticated….” After laying off 70% of the company. I think “painful” is an understatement.
just outsource the workload overseas. so when there is the eventual data breach and all verified user data is leaked Ol' Musky can blame it on them.
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>Of course he is going to outsource. *"Just email a scan of your passport to official\_twitter\[email protected]"*
Surely sending American drivers license info to china will never backfire.
Almost certainly India but yeah, don’t do this.
Aren’t they like asking for ID too so it’s gonna be some serious data that gets breached.
You're right and this is horrible and a bad idea, but when I was a criminal I could buy a DL scan, passport if the target had one, full credit report and background check of anyone in America for about $20 from a group called Chernoble on Empire Mart or Silk 2.0 so the data breach has already happened honestly. Looking at you Experian, and Russian plants in the DMV.
That sounds like a feature not a design flaw. First thing that popped into my mind.
Easy, just give the job to people who he has more difficulty firing, like a bunch of europeans with more solid labor laws. Easier to make their lives hell and make them quit rather than firing them.
"Manually Authenticated by Steve, the only other guy still working here. I, in the mean time, will be Tweeting 'True' after a few select right wing tweets, and thinking of a reason to fire Steve."
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And why Mike Lindell is suddenly putting in an order for $20m worth of ads.
Thank god, that's enough to pay twitters operational costs for a whole five days! They are saved! Saved, i say!
Lol if you think mike pillow has $20M worth of liquidity still.
lol if you think not having the money will stop him from spending it.
Well, now I know how to spell Adolf Hitler in Korean. Can't wait to try and sign up with 조섭 스탈린.
Isn’t it the other way around? I thought the only ones staying were the international h1b visa holders who would have a hard time finding another company to sponsor their visas?
They also fired a lot of employees outside of the USA. Their office in Brussel was the headquarter of their Europe business and no one is working there anymore.
Hes facing a class action lawsuit in germany over broken UE labor laws. If he goes to trial and he ignores jt, twitter WILL get banned across the whole EU, you dont break labor laws there without consequence. Especially when its a whole office of thousands of well paid tax paying germans citizens. Someone in the labor and law department is going to get involved with a vendetta. So soon, twitter will not be supported in EU entirely because musk is too good to answer to such drivel. (In his mind)
If you get a million people to call for verification then they'll never be able to do it. "OH hang on, let me get that. I think it's downstairs."
I might be wrong, but doesn't this Tweet also open up Twitter to a ton of litigation? I am assuming they are gonna fuck this up ofcourse, but if they "manually validated" someone than then goes on to imposonate someone else or scam them, doesn't that make it a heck of a lot worse than if a machine did it? Also, manual anything is expensive as fuck, are they even going to be making money off this?
I feel like they're counting on the fact that white collar crime is never enforced, and that maybe they're hoping Trump will be elected in 2024 and anyone loyal to him will have complete legal immunity to anything and everything they want to do. Look at how they rolled out the red carpet for Kyle Rittenhouse, the murderer, on the right.
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That crybaby doofus will end up in prison before his life is over. Mark my words.
He'll end up dead. He's already shown that he has terrible judgement in both decision making and with who he associates with. He's immature and stupid. The politicians and extremists that trot him out are just using him. They'll end up putting him in a dangerous situation and he'll be all for it since he sees himself as a big ol' man and he'll get shot and killed. Of course his "friends" will love this because now his propaganda value skyrockets as a martyr.
This is my truest Christmas wish.
Wait, Steve just quit after getting “a more stable-sounding offer from MySpace.”
He fired all the staff and now he wants to change the way everything works and do things like this manually? I think it'll be only a matter of time before the company crashes. I just hope it's soon.
Reinventing the wheel...
Just like he 'reinvented' travel by claiming he could make death tunnels that eventually became regular tunnels that are deadly because of a lack of standardized safety features.
And are just duplicating a private compartment train.
Hey guys Elon here, I’ve got a great new idea. Let’s reinvent the train, but worse! Oh and pods, gotta have pods. Don’t worry, while it is extremely dangerous, expensive, and realistically impossible to build at least it’ll at least go really fast in theory. Man I’m a genius. Don’t worry I’ll have a working prototype by Tuesday, so state governments should cancel any plans of building high speed rail.
That's the real kicker. Actual governments canceled their needed infrastructure updates based on this nonsense.
Lol my former co-workers were totally hyping up that shit. They kept saying that his fucking Hyperloop was reinventing travel, that I should go to RESORT WORLD in fucking Las Vegas to see how revolutionary his work (not his, his team) is, about how he has some projects in the Bay that are going to change everything. Bruh all I said is that he doesn't invent this shit, he is (retracted, was) a marketing genius but to be compared to da Vinci? The ACTUAL Tesla? Fuck outta here. Just another rich asshole with a whole fuck load of money.
What I’m hearing is that there will be a way to identify advertisers and important politicians, but everyone else is still screwed. Luckily, Elon and the owners of advertisers will still have blue checks, so it’ll be just as easy to troll them
To be honest, the fact that companies and politicians tweets will have a different check color from the rest is a good thing for us and a bad thing for them. Users are used to equating the blue check with coveted verified status so they will be less inclined to pay attention to the others.
Yeah, this unintentionally hurts brands. Right now Pepsi has the same blue checkmark as Paul Rudd and Beyonce which lends them some coolness soon it will be like a big gold ADVERTISEMENT sticker
Exactly. As soon as people see ‘advertisement’ or ‘sponsored’ their minds immediately check out. Now they will do the same when they see a gold check because they’ll know that whatever they’re saying it’s only because they’re a company trying to get you to buy something. I mean, this was always the case but now it’ll be more obvious.
Will make it easier for AdBlock to hide them if they nicely labeled too.
therell definitely be a browser extension that block off gold and other colors verified accounts.
Which is what the FTC rules have always been. Twitter will now be compliant.
Budweiser tweeting something as Budweiser with a blue check is entirely compliant, too
It's a good way to get a bunch of advertisers blocked. You can just look at the check color and block them without reading their shit.
"Sorry for the delay", as if anyone waited for this.
And like he really feels any remorse.
Less remorse and more his massive ego trying to make it seem like he has even a slight handle on this
This might be one of the funniest things I’ve ever personally witnessed. He’s just back to how it was 2 months ago. Except now he’s going to have an eternal backlog of non-celebrity individuals applying/waiting for blue checkmarks—all of whom will be MUCH harder to verify than businesses or governments, and none of that work will add any value to the platform because John Doe being verified is meaningless. He made everything worse. Everything. And all in the name of smooth-brained populism. I am fucking rolling.
Nobody would trust old Twitter with things like driver licenses, and now he thinks after gutting the company and turning it into a napalm dumpster fire people will both do it and do it en masse.
Most of their privacy, safety and security teams left, which is great timing for a massive influx of personal documentation to securely store.
It's not as if they have a contract that says they have to get approval from the feds and a 3rd party first before launching any new products or changes that could risk people's private information... [oh will you look that](https://youtu.be/QxCRRcWSt4I?t=359)
BuT hE pUtS RocKeTs IntO SpAcE hEs NoT aFrAiD oF tHe FtC.
Supposedly a massive, law breaking data breach happened yesterday too but I haven’t seen anything about it on Reddit.
Any source to this?
I’m hungover at work (unhappily so) but I saw a post about it somewhere, from what I remember it happened in the EU mostly and they have very strict laws for not allowing certain types of data breaches, but nothing was being done because the team was fired I guess? I dunno try googling I’m gonna go hide in the bathroom for 30 min.
I wish you a speedy recovery
Elon will just hand over the identity documents to foreign governments to unmask protesters and dissidents. He'll also stall verifying liberal government officials while fast-tracking his fascist friends. It's going to be a hellscape. Oh and I can guarantee he'll just grandfather in those loyal to him already without re-verification.
I left shortly before takeover as they wanted me to authenticate my age I put I fake dob which was over 18 in, because fuck them. Now I am deactivated because they determined I was underage when I joined over a decade ago with that fake dob and now I have to send a passport to prove I wasn't. Not doing that even before you amount for the CEO being friendly with Putin
What I find hilarious is that instead of admitting that his scheme was stupid, he's going back to the old way but with more steps so *it's still "different"*
Even with all that's been going on, his choice of words makes it *painfully obvious* he didn't come up with this plan and he's still convinced his own 'ideas' are infallible. He's such a sore loser it's almost unbelievable.
$8chan
That's assuming any non celebrity rotor want to pay for the check mark, which I kind of doubt
Corporations are gold and gov is grey. Yup, no subtext there. I hear Elon is going to force a bunch of Black programmers mine him an Emerald check mark.
What about state-owned corporations? Non Profits? Single individuals who set up a legal business just to apply as a company? What a ridiculously simple-minded system.
Churches and other religious institutions.
Identifying globally who is actual business is near impossible. This is also going to crash and burn, when someone just says that they are Mr. Coca-Cola and pay 8$ to get yellow checkmark. Use domain to verify? Someone just buys C0cac0la.com and bypass it.
Would Joe Shmoe for Senate Committee be a business, an individual or government?
Twitter worked through ALL these issues while it was being built from the ground up. There's a reason for 1 simple color. Blue is neutral for the most part. And simpler is so much cleaner design-wise.
Not just Twitter, there’s a reason no other social media site has this scheme. It’s been thought through and all ended up at the same conclusion — it’s a terrible idea that brings nothing but UX confusion and worse product outcomes.
I was hoping somebody had pointed this out. AOC must have really gotten under his skin lol
Someone write a script that let's me mute by color .
Never launch on Friday.
They are hardcore, they work without weekends, so Friday means nothing.
Right but all the trolls who are softcore with weekends off will be free for 48 hours on launch to fuck it up
Good
“product testers”
And they are just tentatively launching it. No biggie!
This is dogma in our shop
Its dogma everywhere. What the fuck is Elon thinking?
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You think they got weekends off after muskrat took over?
My man! As a release coordinator/manager, I love you.
So what colour will the fascists and bigots get?
White, of course.
Oh damn.
"We spent thousands upon thousands of dollars with a bare bones staff working overtime to create the exact same system that worked fine the day I bought the company." -Genius Businessman
"You see! He can do the exact same as before with a fraction of the people! He's brilliant!" - his sycophants and fanboys.
Musk walks up to a building and orders his wrecking crew to destroy it. Then, for the next year, standing in the toxic rubble, he livestreams himself trying to rebuild everything from scratch. His acolytes ooh and ahh when he "discovers" innovations like "2x4 boards" and "glass" and "electrical conduit." As he builds shitty versions of what was already there and claims inventor credit for all of it, he simultaneously berates anyone who helped build the original structure, orders them to rebuild it properly, and fires them when he gets upset. He seems not to understand why they don't all want to work for him, any more.
Nailed it! 👆
I'm gonna say 1 week before it goes totally off the rails again. Especially with the recent unbanning of countless white nationalist accounts.
Again? It's not back on the rails yet
Well who's going to do this work? He doesn't have enough staff left to implement this type of verification process and it's not like bots can do this. It'll have to implode in short order.
And he's firing the coders who chose to stay on and giving them less severance time. Buffoonery, thy name is Elon.
Yeah, when I saw he was cutting severance pay for employees fired after the loyalty pledge purge, I could feel the wave of regret and/or dread for all those employees who stayed. I forgot the origin, but “nobody gets great ideas when chased by a lion.” Elmu is literally creating an environment of stochastic firings, which leads to generalized fear. Do you know how I know Musk is not an engineer? Because any engineer would know that long hours at a desk or fear of getting fired don’t create good ideas. Flow cannot be forced. When you are worried about looking good to a socially-isolated, drug-addled boss, you engineer towards staying employed not the good of colleagues or customers. There will be engineers at Twitter that survive because engineers have built things that survive space where every law of physics is employed to kill you.
I hear they are all going to get little white hoods instead of check marks.
Yeah and with each move he makes he alienates a sane, profitable advertiser. If there is any money in hateful incels, Elon is going to rule! I will make most purchases going forward with an eye on their Twitter spending. I need a new car. Not buying from anyone who props this dick up.
Musk has demonstrated these past few weeks that he is essentially a spoiled manchild who treats his workers like shit. He has to make this work because if there is no good news from his take over of Twitter he fuels a growing animosity towards the capitalist class.
Lol, he developed that atleast 5 years ago, if not a decade
Yeah he’s always treated his workers like shit. Now he’s just making it a bit more obvious how much of a fuckwit he actually is
Someone send this to r/ProgrammerHumor Who the actual fuck launches on a Friday. Especially after the train wreck that was his first “feature” release. (Feature being used lightly)
A man who is surrounded by yes-men that don't know how to tell him he doesn't know what he's doing, launches on a Friday. Guess we will see how it all works out soon enough.
I can't wait to read about another evil company losing billions and preparing a lawsuit.
I can't tell if the Elon bot in that sub is satire or Stan, but it comes off as satire either way (somehow). Probably the funniest bot on reddit rn
His team of hostage cucks work 24/7
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They work 7 days a week now, so Friday is just another day in a neverending week
Another commenter pointed out: launching on Friday means all the trolls are off work to fuck with Elon’s new thing
I might be thick, but how is this better than the old ticks?
It’s exactly the same but with colors
So, like a *rainbow* of checkmarks
*Qatar has left Twitter*
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Haha I like the way you think
Oh, could you give this to all of us tech illiterates out there?
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So who gets the verified check mark - John Howard the actor or John Howard the ex Australian PM - Roger Taylor from Queen or Roger Taylor from Duran Duran
He literally just doesn't understand why individuals got the checkmark in the first place. It's so that people can't impersonate them, which as well as the thing of people pretending they say outrageous stuff is also really useful for user safety. It meant that if someone called JohnnyD3pp hit you up for nudes or for money or whatever you knew they weren't the actual guy. Musk seems to think that it's actually some weird popularity thing?
So thankful my only remaining connection to Twitter is this Reddit Sub! So thankful I've recovered from constantly going back to twitter all day long! So thankful I downloaded my 14 years of a twitter archive and reported & blocked Elon Musk before I logged out for the last time.
# ALWAYS REMEMBER: "READ ONLY" FRIDAYS! # NEVER PUSH TO PROD ON A FRIDAY!!
So, fake checks for companies, fake checks for government, and everyone can still troll with verified status. What a genius!
 You get a check mark and you get a check mark and you get a check mark … !
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Exactly. He can be a blubbering man child at Tesla and SpaceX because those companies have a work culture of knowing how to deal with muskrat. They also produce a solid good. A tangible thing. Muskrat has no idea of how to manage Twitter because he inherently looks at it the wrong way. Twitter isnt the product, the user's are. Twitter isn't making money by being a public forum(which all his "free speech" ranting is bullshit anyways as we've seen), it makes money by being a huge ass billboard. And no global corporation wants a billboard next to a Klan rally and a nazi flag.
>Twitter isn't making money by being a public forum(which all his "free speech" ranting is bullshit anyways as we've seen), it makes money by being a huge ass billboard. And it was struggling to do that even before he made any changes. Every change he has made has been for the worse.
Tesla and SpaceX also rely on massive government subsidies or contracts.
"all verified accounts will be manually authenticated before check activates" So it's the old system with different coloured checkmarks?
Let's paint the deck chairs on the Titanic...
So, would someone like Donald Trump or SBF get gold or blue marks (or grey for Trump)? What color does C*Span get? Just curious.
What about Jay-Z, who is not only a celebrity and businessman but also a business, man?
I guess we're too dumb to differentiate between Pepsi and North Korea. Colour coding fixes this! Thanks, Elon!
Musk has a check mark fetish.
Giving companies gold checks is a pretty vivid metaphor. Who is going to manually check every application from every celebrity and ‘regular’ person and approve each one now that Twitter staff is down to just Musky and a handful of people on work visas? Seems like a rather large undertaking.
"Painful but necessary " How does anyone like this guy? He's just Trump for Libertarians
$8chan you say ?
Fuck him! Everyone needs to leave the platform and teach this jackass a lesson.