Even the dickhead rwnjs who hated the “blue check marks” because they would disprove whatever nonsense about they were saying about Hillary being executed by military tribunal benefited from knowing who was who on twitter.
There is going to be an adjustment for our G5 posters joining the Big 12. Speed of the game is just so much faster.
Is it going to be more a more embarrassing blow to Musk's ego to roll back this stupid plan, or slowly erode Twitter's one true value as a website? An answer entirely dependent on whether Tesla's investors still believe Tesla can compete with actual car companies as they roll out their new electric/hybrids.
Not much longer until Twitter takes the next step in Musk’s business plan and moves it’s operations out of the office and into a two-car garage.
Succession has given us some of the greatest character on TV today. if the writers had pitched a character behaving exactly as Elon Musk has this past year it would have ended up on the cutting room floor for being too far fetched. you can't even concoct a fictional character as vain and foolish as this guy.
Remember when half the thread didn't see how charging for the blue check would work and it actually seemed like a bad idea? We just don't have the business mind of Elon Musk
"good morning all lets see why i am getting tagged <bullshit bullshit bullshit> well i'm gonna bow out now. go touch grass."
Those users bought twitter blue, changed their names to Elon Musk and Ted Cruz and tweeted ‘Trans Rights’
It's a fake account in that he changed his display name, but he's a well known person in the nat sec/infosec world
What's more, wouldn't NYT with 60mm followers be on the list for one of the "most followed" companies and get free verification?? Or does that rule just apply haphazardly?