…to be more precise, it appears that Elmo found the one person he hasn’t fired who knew where the “hide verification” button is. Because some people are reporting that they are still technically verified. Its just the verification badge is now hidden.
Would be funny if all they did was replace that blue check images asset with a single black pixel.
I’d kind of like to make “My past is filled with rugs” my tagline.
All legacy verifications have been archived, so it won’t be long until you can install an extension to see all of the legacy verified accounts.
Not that it really performs its function, but at least you can thumb your nose at Musk by using it.
Or from death, eventually.
…Twitters pretty much unusable now. A few weeks ago he removed notifications to show if someone was either being retweeted into the timeline or somebody you followed was responding. Which mean random tweets from random people ended up in your feed.
And with the blanket removal of verification, I’ve got no idea if the person posting is genuine or not. I’ve been fooled about 10 times already today. Its a garbage fire.
And to top it all off, Elons re-introduced the rubbish video player that they’ve been experimenting with and I’ve complained about before. Its just utter garbage.
UGGGH. And many of the people I’m following have had to lock down because so much nonsense is happening right now.
Well done Elon, you’ve finally broken the damn thing.
Twitter.com has decided to an re-enactment of Starship.
I get the feeling that until the greater mass of users literally can’t post or read at all for days on end, they will not really consider it “broken”.
Looks like it is back up. I had only noticed it was down because I wanted to confirm something before posting, but Musk has removed the “state media” label from Sputnik. It really tells you everything you need to know about the media labelling situation.
Actually, Elmo has now quietly removed the “Government funded media” label for everyone:
More agile back-pedaling! More irrepairable PR damage that now further erodes trust in Twitter!
Self-proclaimed free-speech absolutist continues to demonstrate he is exactly not anything of the kind.
In related news, Matt Walsh continues to be a worthless dickhole.
Twitter now no longer informs readers that they are reading state-affiliated media (as already posted above):
Seems like we’re closing in on the day when Elmo’s revenue-generation ideas are demonstrated to be laughably nonviable (as we all knew), and he pivots to “Destroying Twitter was always an acceptable outcome. It was worthwhile to demonstrate the fakeness of” yadda yadda yadda.
He’ll never admit it was destroyed. It’ll still be around in some form. MySpace is still out there, after all.
But he can and will get more shrill about it until what remains leaves the public consciousness. And maybe try some harebrained scheme to tie the remnants to his bizarre fetish for crypto and obsolete online payment systems
That said, I have to give him credit for this - he made it 6 months at the helm. I guess even when you’re trying, it’s really, really hard to kill a multi-billionaire dollar company in less than half a year.
ETA: Too soon. It’s actually just short of the 6 month mark. He still has time!
Well of course he’ll never say it was “destroyed”.
Musk is holding onto Twitter until one of these 2 outcomes:
- Twitter becomes a profitable and respected source of Musk-flattering coverage
- He can find another sucker to buy it when it appears to be on the brink of permanent irrelevance.
Obviously #1 isn’t going to happen. So when things are obviously on the cusp of flying apart, Musk will find some enterprising sucker to recoup maybe a 10th of what he paid for it. Then Twitter will collapse, and Musk will claim that he himself achieved his goal of ridding Twitter of bots, trolls, and uppity blue-checks, and that the new buyer obviously failed because he wasn’t as good at managing social media companies as Musk.
Ok, I just visualized Elmo shrieking and shrinking, shrinking and shrieking, his wails going higher and higher in pitch as his vocal tract diminishes, until he disappears in a puff of hash-scented smoke and a near-ultrasonic wail.
It made me happy to imagine this.
Elmo’s latest stroke of genius; force businesses to get a checkmark if they want to give him money.
SURELY the advertisers who’ve been scared away by his threats and childish behavior will leap at the chance to get lumped in with white supremacists, Bitcoin evangelists, and men who consider themselves “alphas” but walk around all day with shit-encrusted asses because wiping makes you gay somehow.