Twitter's plan for two verification badges

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Paati Sooth said:
So he didn't say the actual words 'I predict that 90% of Elon's ideas will be utter trash', he rather said 'I expect a lot of his ideas are not going to work but the remaining 10% should work'. Which implies that he expects 90% of the ideas to not work.
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Now I am going to walk you back, you said,

he expects 90% of Elon's plans to be utter trash
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when he actually said,

10% of the features that will stick: by defining a lot of new features.”
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and you skipped CZ's spaghetti talk, explaining that Musk's approach is to throw spaghetti at the wall to see what sticks with their users. He was well aware when he said that in that interview.

Paati Sooth said:
He also literally said that he heard about the $8 subscription along with everyone else, proving that he invested without knowing Elon's plans up-front, which is exactly what I said. His investors don't know his plans because he's making them up on the spot based on some random tweet that popped up in his feed which he felt the need to respond to.
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You know what CZ also said, you quoted it,

“I heard about the blue tick for a while, but I learned about the $8 thing at the same time you did. Anything that can reduce the bots on Twitter is fantastic.”
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Fantastic.

Paati Sooth said:
This is the guy who launched the second-level verification tick, had his office-sleeping PM write up a post about how it works, then tweet a few hours later 'I killed it, $8 is the great equalizer for everyone', and this morning, the second verification IS BACK AGAIN, because his brilliant idea that people aren't going to risk losing $8 to impersonate someone else has proven to be utter trash, because almost everyone who has a blue tick right now is impersonating an official account, either to mock him or to run crypto scams, proving what everyone other than Elon said - the $8 verification system is going to do nothing whatsoever to combat spam.
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Musk knows more about running businesses than anyone else here, all his equity partners are in talks with him and some are open to the invitation to serve on the Twitter board. Also, don't misrepresent CZ, I don't think you want to be on his wrong side :ROFL:
 
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Fulcrum29 said:
Now I am going to walk you back, you said,



when he actually said,



and you skipped CZ's spaghetti talk, explaining that Musk's approach is to throw spaghetti at the wall to see what sticks with their users. He was well aware when he said that in that interview.



You know what CZ also said, you quoted it,



Fantastic.



Musk knows more about running businesses than anyone else here, all his equity partners are in talks with him and some are open to the invitation to serve on the Twitter board. Also, don't misrepresent CZ, I don't think you want to be on his wrong side :ROFL:
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Yeah, I definitely want prince Mohammed BoneSaw to be sitting on the board of the "free speech" platform.
*Obviously* if someone invested hundreds of millions or billions of dollars, they'd want to sit on the board of their investment... the fact that they're not already on the board is the puzzling part.

You're also assuming that this Fantastic $8 idea (or any of the other ideas) is going to have a meaningful effect on the number of bots. That remains to be seen, its too early to tell (the feature hasn't actually rolled out yet, and it'll probably be a while before it does since Elon will have to change his mind on it another 5000 times), so I'm willing to reserve judgement on that. But what we can see right now is that impersonation is still a problem even with the in-testing verification. Maybe it solves the problem of bots (which it won't because bot operators can easily use fake or stolen details to sign up an account), but it won't do anything to solve the problem of knowing if you're actually interacting with Elon Musk @ElonMusk :verified:, chief twit of twitter, or Elon Musk @e1onmusk :verified:, crypto scammer (although that's probably a bad example...).
Great, he gets rid of a handful of bots... he still hasn't solved the problem that bots contribute to, which is impersonation, misinformation and scams.
 
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