What's he Musking up again?
Demanding $1000 a month from bands is kinda dumb.
Enshittification Stage 3.
This isn't even enshittification. This is just trash ownership
Hahaha
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.
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:
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?
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
"I just reinstated a pedophile. Now pay me to put your ads on my SHIT" ~Elon "fascists are my best and only friends" Musk
X* ads.
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
I'm no businessman but this sounds like a good way to make companies move away from your platform.
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