Elon Musk now owns Twitter, apparently trying to run it into the ground

[Icarus27k]

[Icarus27k]

On 3/30/2023 at 11:33 AM, Icarus27k said:

 

 

 

[matrixman124]

Happy "4/20: We're Actually Getting Rid of Legacy Checkmarks This Time, Guys, Because 4/20 lol" Day

[matrixman124]

Oh they're gone. Let the bullying commence.

[stilgar]

I hope more corporations lose billions because of people pretending to be them.

[matrixman124]

heh

 

[Icarus27k]

Not having a blue checkmark is a status symbol. 

[matrixman124]

I've already ratioed a blue who was offering to pay for other people to get it.

[matrixman124]

Wowwwww he really is buying checkmarks for celebs to create the illusion that more people got them so more people buy them. He's desperate.

[stilgar]

What a pathetic mother fucker.

[Icarus27k]

Someone said the brilliant businessman negotiated himself from $20 (the original proposed cost for Twitter Blue) to -$8 (the amount he paid for King to keep his checkmark). 

[matrixman124]

This guy doesn't even understand that actors aren't employees of their talent agencies. This is so pathetic.

[Icarus27k]

Now it's getting into begging people to buy something territory.

You can tell Twitter is really relying on income from this. 

[Icarus27k]

Hey! Do you want to see a billionaire beg for money from other people? Want to see him have to do it the most public way possible? 

Here you go. 

[Icarus27k]

 

(It's a Musk fan trying to bully the Elmo account.)

 

[katt_goddess]

2 hours ago, Icarus27k said:

 

(It's a Musk fan trying to bully the Elmo account.)

 

Well, to be fair, the average Husk fan, while also having a hand up their ass, is still punching over their weight limit when going after a Muppet. 

[rpgamer]

4 hours ago, stilgar said:

What a pathetic mother fucker.

Same energy.

[matrixman124]

[Jman]

 

[André Toulon]

2 hours ago, rpgamer said:

Same energy.

I don't gaf about....Jeb, right....but every time I see this I genuinely feel bad for this dude. How lame can you be.

Edited April 21, 2023 by André Toulon
Just fucking insists that I mean Jen

[Seight]

6 hours ago, Icarus27k said:

 

(It's a Musk fan trying to bully the Elmo account.)

 

"Where has all of the $billions of dollars PBS has made from Sesame Street licensing gone?"

-Someone who clearly does not watch PBS

[rpgamer]

Turns out, the marks are still there. Just shifted to a non-visible spectrum.

 

[matrixman124]

Noice

Edited April 22, 2023 by matrixman124

[naraku360]

14 hours ago, matrixman124 said:

Wowwwww he really is buying checkmarks for celebs to create the illusion that more people got them so more people buy them. He's desperate.

This would make me leave Twitter if I were Stephen King.

[André Toulon]

7 minutes ago, naraku360 said:

This would make me leave Twitter if I were Stephen King.

Elon would just post from it to make it seem like he's still there.

[Doom Metal Alchemist]

48 minutes ago, André Toulon said:

Elon would just post from it to make it seem like he's still there.

He'd give himself away pretty quickly, lol

[Seight]

5 hours ago, André Toulon said:

Elon would just post from it to make it seem like he's still there.

"I just got hit by a car. New book idea upcoming!"

[PenguinBoss]

58 minutes ago, Seight said:

"I just got hit by a car. New book idea upcoming!"

"And to clarify, it definitely wasn't a Tesla™ Model S, from the world's leading name in electric vehicles."

[Raptorpat]

On 4/21/2023 at 11:03 AM, matrixman124 said:

Wowwwww he really is buying checkmarks for celebs to create the illusion that more people got them so more people buy them. He's desperate.

https://twitter.com/StephenKing/status/1649771678220574722

[matrixman124]

1 hour ago, Raptorpat said:

https://twitter.com/StephenKing/status/1649771678220574722

"Haha I'm not even using money, I just had an engineer turn on the Blue checkmark switch"

[Icarus27k]

[Icarus27k]

[1pooh4u]

1 hour ago, Icarus27k said:

C’mon that’s not real 😆

[Icarus27k]

For unknown reasons, the blue check marks are returning to accounts that haven't paid for them.

Looks like another Musk whim. 

[discolé monade]

14 hours ago, Seight said:

"I just got hit by a car. New book idea upcoming!"

van...

but yeah...he was close to losing his leg or something, and so...while healing, he went back to paper and pen, because it hurt too much to sit for long periods of time, at his computer. 

yes...i was a fangirl. shut up. 

 

Edited April 23, 2023 by discolé monade
because i forgot words. i didn't word right. write?

[Raptorpat]

28 minutes ago, Icarus27k said:

For unknown reasons, the blue check marks are returning to accounts that haven't paid for them.

Looks like another Musk whim. 

I saw somewhere that he never deactivated them because he couldn't figure out how to do it all at once, so he just hid them

[Icarus27k]

 

Also, the New York Times' check mark is back. Weeks ago, Musk singled out their account and took away its checkmark because the Times announced they wouldn't be paying for verification. 

[matrixman124]

It seems his legal team told him that handing out checkmarks for non-identity protection reasons was kind of illegal.

[rpgamer]

Word going around is any account over 1 million followers, whether previously verified or not, is now getting the check forced on them. Which now falsely states that the users paid for it.

Apparently Musk wasn't content with just one spectacular explosion this week.

[DragonSinger]

This apparently happened yesterday, and I suspect they left Dril alone after they brought up Epstein 😭.

 

[1pooh4u]

Must be nice to have so much $$ that you can buy a social media platform just to troll people and to prevent people from picking on you with their big bad words 

seriously just don’t use it. There are options out there. Sure they might all be terrible but still

[matrixman124]

It's too fun to watch him fuck up

[DragonSinger]

4 hours ago, 1pooh4u said:

Must be nice to have so much $$ that you can buy a social media platform just to troll people and to prevent people from picking on you with their big bad words 

seriously just don’t use it. There are options out there. Sure they might all be terrible but still

Unfortunately, there aren't many places to go. Mastodon writing circles got taken over by annoying cliques who were the reason a lot of minorities in the industry use twitter. Spoutible is a no-go after the guy who runs it went into a full tantrum because Romance authors did what he asked folks to do and offered feedback on his site, e.g. the TOS. I don't know anyone who actually uses Hive, but I heard there were problems there too.

[1pooh4u]

7 minutes ago, DragonSinger said:

Unfortunately, there aren't many places to go. Mastodon writing circles got taken over by annoying cliques who were the reason a lot of minorities in the industry use twitter. Spoutible is a no-go after the guy who runs it went into a full tantrum because Romance authors did what he asked folks to do and offered feedback on his site, e.g. the TOS. I don't know anyone who actually uses Hive, but I heard there were problems there too.

I figured. that’s why I said “they might all be terrible” it must be impossible to create a platform that is gonna please everyone and the ones attempting to appeal to the “bUt mUh fReE sPeAcH” people are gonna be the worst of the worst but Elon is just such a fuckin dbag dick hole that not using Twitter might be the only reasonable thing to do.   The loudest voices on Twitter rn are just so Fuckin terrible 

[DragonSinger]

8 minutes ago, 1pooh4u said:

I figured. that’s why I said “they might all be terrible” it must be impossible to create a platform that is gonna please everyone and the ones attempting to appeal to the “bUt mUh fReE sPeAcH” people are gonna be the worst of the worst but Elon is just such a fuckin dbag dick hole that not using Twitter might be the only reasonable thing to do.   The loudest voices on Twitter rn are just so Fuckin terrible 

I've done some weaning off the site. I used to have around 20 twitter tabs open at a time, but since traditional publishing is combusting, there's a lot less for me to research to stay up to date. Tumblr would be nicer if it had a better reply section. 

[Icarus27k]

I've tried Hive. It's not too bad. I just didn't keep up with it because of my aversion to not wanting to learn a new online thing. 

 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hive_Social

Edited April 23, 2023 by Icarus27k

[katt_goddess]

1 hour ago, 1pooh4u said:

I figured. that’s why I said “they might all be terrible” it must be impossible to create a platform that is gonna please everyone and the ones attempting to appeal to the “bUt mUh fReE sPeAcH” people are gonna be the worst of the worst but Elon is just such a fuckin dbag dick hole that not using Twitter might be the only reasonable thing to do.   The loudest voices on Twitter rn are just so Fuckin terrible 

I guess that Dorsey, the dude that co-created Twit in the first place, is now setting up a new version of old Twit that's going to be by invitation-only. The question is, would you accept an invitation if you actually made whatever the cut is to get said invite? 

Hey, now. I can't help it. Sophistry is my co-pilot.  

[matrixman124]

1 hour ago, katt_goddess said:

I guess that Dorsey, the dude that co-created Twit in the first place, is now setting up a new version of old Twit that's going to be by invitation-only. The question is, would you accept an invitation if you actually made whatever the cut is to get said invite? 

Hey, now. I can't help it. Sophistry is my co-pilot.  

I actually got an invite from a writer friend. I'll distribute some codes if they come this way. 

Blue Sky is the platform btw 

[1pooh4u]

2 hours ago, DragonSinger said:

I've done some weaning off the site. I used to have around 20 twitter tabs open at a time, but since traditional publishing is combusting, there's a lot less for me to research to stay up to date. Tumblr would be nicer if it had a better reply section. 

Tumblr isn’t bad I don’t fuck with it for much other than scrolling for cute eye bleach type stuff 

[rpgamer]

War never changes