What's he Musking up again?
Demanding $1000 a month from bands is kinda dumb.
I like Musking as a verb.
Musking: being a billionaire and therefore believing everything you do is genius while simultaneously ruining everything you touch. Buying your way into brands and calling yourself the founder.
Occasionally someone "Musking" might also call people they don't like a pedophile.
Hahaha
Enshittification Stage 3.
This isn't even enshittification. This is just trash ownership
Seriously, why is it even a thing anymore? It's really sad that people are still even using the service. I understand the stories, because a train wreck is hard to turn away from, but why would you still want to be on board the train? Literally no one should be on that hellsite.
South park couldn't come up with this level of "because x therefore x"
A desperate ploy to repay the insatiable debt frin the purchase, or genius business move? You decide.
So what is stopping the companies from just paying the 9 bucks for the verified status and telling the muskrat to sod off?
gold checkmark identifying that the account belongs to a verified brand.
Blue checkmark and gold checkmark are different things.
Controversial idea but maybe federated servers should think of some way of delivering federated advertising. Some way to fund the model in a fair and equitable way while draw away funding that goes into Twitter or other social media platforms. Doesn't stop people blocking it of course.
We do need to think about how to keep the Fediverse running, but advertising shouldn't be federated. If an instance wants to run ads that's fine, but that shouldn't be distributed to any other instances, not even if the posts and users engage with other instances. Who is going to want to see or redistribute ads for a different instance?
I heard that Twitter originally added verification because they were getting sued over imposters, so they added verification to delegitimize imposters and thus give less reason for others to sue them.
Now Musk is getting rid of verification en masse, so the original reason for the lawsuits will return.
Here's how to play it if you're a business who loses your Twitter verification:
Why anyone stays on twitter is beyond me. Musk is turning it into something toxic, akin to parler or truth social, and he's making decisions regarding it like it's his private BBS or a toy to be played with capriciously.
Twitter is still a thing? Color me surprised. It won’t be much longer.
Also, FUCK Elon Musky
X* ads.
"I just reinstated a pedophile. Now pay me to put your ads on my SHIT" ~Elon "fascists are my best and only friends" Musk
wtf...musk is an idiot
Lol, without his handlers to keep his stupid ideas in check he really is outing himself as an absolute idiot
Speedrunning the collapse of the Corponet
The fuck is this meant to do? Will Elon ever realize that he's not improving Twitter in any way and is only making it worse?
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