Twitter's plan for two verification badges

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R13... said:
What exactly does that entail?
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According to Elon, it will prioritise your tweets above those from non-paying users... this after he complained about how Twitter's algorithms were promoting leftist content and how he was going to "open-source" the algorithms and create some sort of "town hall" where everyone's views are equal.

Now people are only equal if they pay him $8 a month, otherwise, in his own words, you'd have to scroll really far down in order to see tweets from non-verified users.

So much for his "town hall" concept, when you just have to buy yourself a megaphone to drown out the voices of all those poors.

But anyways all of the features that you'd supposedly get with the subscription are all "coming soon", but he has no problem making you pay for the blue check now. It's the same grift he's been pulling for years with his self-drive feature in Tesla.
 
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Twitter's own account isn't even Official :laugh:

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But the South African Asus account with its 8k followers, sure!

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The_Ogre said:
I also get that impression. He's a genius in the engineering field, but Twitter, I sometimes get the feeling he just bought it because he could.
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He had absolutely no intention of buying it, the whole offer thing was just for attention and for his own amusement... then when Twitter called his bluff and actually agreed to be bought, he started making up excuses to try and get out of it.
He spent months arguing that twitter's mDAU is an invalid metric, and yesterday tweets out a graph showing an increased mDAU as if it's now suddenly a trustworthy metric.
He's fired half the staff, and now they're begging staff to come back because obviously there was no thought behind who's being let go. He's launched a feature and then canned the feature within hours.
The man has no clue about what to do now that he owns it, he's just throwing crap at the wall to see what sticks, except he's had almost 6 months to come up with actual plans to put in place but he spent all of that time arguing about why he should be able to get out of a contract that he signed, based on information he would have gotten during the due diligence that he never performed.
So this idea of him being a genius is a myth. He grew up rich, and used his wealth to buy his way into opportunities which he then sold.
This twitter exercise has exposed him to be just another regular moron like me... it's really puzzling that after all of the idiotic moves he's made and continues to make every single day, that people still hero-worship him
 
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RedViking said:
That makes more sense. I think he needs to slow down a bit in the public scene and test features in smaller groups first.

Obviously it is good for entertainment.
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lol if you think that there's any testing or indeed any planning that's going on at twitter right now. The lady who posted a picture of herself sleeping on the floor at work also posted a message responding to reports that the new verification functionality was already going live over the weekend, to say that it's actually not live, but they're releasing stuff live as they're working on it.

***and this is the man who wants to send people in a rocket to the moon, and build cars that drive themselves***

I will say that he is *really* good at conning people into giving him money though.
 
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I don't understand the confusion, the rules for the badges are very clear.

I suspect that people are either just trying to find fault, or they are hostile change subjects.
 
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Paati Sooth said:
He had absolutely no intention of buying it, the whole offer thing was just for attention and for his own amusement... then when Twitter called his bluff and actually agreed to be bought, he started making up excuses to try and get out of it.
He spent months arguing that twitter's mDAU is an invalid metric, and yesterday tweets out a graph showing an increased mDAU as if it's now suddenly a trustworthy metric.
He's fired half the staff, and now they're begging staff to come back because obviously there was no thought behind who's being let go. He's launched a feature and then canned the feature within hours.
The man has no clue about what to do now that he owns it, he's just throwing crap at the wall to see what sticks, except he's had almost 6 months to come up with actual plans to put in place but he spent all of that time arguing about why he should be able to get out of a contract that he signed, based on information he would have gotten during the due diligence that he never performed.
So this idea of him being a genius is a myth. He grew up rich, and used his wealth to buy his way into opportunities which he then sold.
This twitter exercise has exposed him to be just another regular moron like me... it's really puzzling that after all of the idiotic moves he's made and continues to make every single day, that people still hero-worship him
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Elon didn't grow up rich. He was better off than most but by no means like Trump who got 100mil startup capital from his dad.
He is actually smart and is business smart as well which is why he has done well.
I don't necessarily agree will all the decisions he has made but the guy knows how to run a business. He has run numerous businesses very well.

I think Twitter was an ego purchase though and could be to his downfall.
 
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