Icarus27k Posted April 16, 2023 Share Posted April 16, 2023 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Icarus27k Posted April 20, 2023 Share Posted April 20, 2023 On 3/30/2023 at 11:33 AM, Icarus27k said: 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matrixman124 Posted April 20, 2023 Share Posted April 20, 2023 Happy "4/20: We're Actually Getting Rid of Legacy Checkmarks This Time, Guys, Because 4/20 lol" Day 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matrixman124 Posted April 20, 2023 Share Posted April 20, 2023 Oh they're gone. Let the bullying commence. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stilgar Posted April 20, 2023 Share Posted April 20, 2023 I hope more corporations lose billions because of people pretending to be them. 1 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matrixman124 Posted April 21, 2023 Share Posted April 21, 2023 heh 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Icarus27k Posted April 21, 2023 Share Posted April 21, 2023 Not having a blue checkmark is a status symbol. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matrixman124 Posted April 21, 2023 Share Posted April 21, 2023 I've already ratioed a blue who was offering to pay for other people to get it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matrixman124 Posted April 21, 2023 Share Posted April 21, 2023 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. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stilgar Posted April 21, 2023 Share Posted April 21, 2023 What a pathetic mother fucker. 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Icarus27k Posted April 21, 2023 Share Posted April 21, 2023 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). 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matrixman124 Posted April 21, 2023 Share Posted April 21, 2023 This guy doesn't even understand that actors aren't employees of their talent agencies. This is so pathetic. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Icarus27k Posted April 21, 2023 Share Posted April 21, 2023 Now it's getting into begging people to buy something territory. You can tell Twitter is really relying on income from this. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Icarus27k Posted April 21, 2023 Share Posted April 21, 2023 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. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Icarus27k Posted April 21, 2023 Share Posted April 21, 2023 (It's a Musk fan trying to bully the Elmo account.) 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
katt_goddess Posted April 21, 2023 Share Posted April 21, 2023 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. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rpgamer Posted April 21, 2023 Share Posted April 21, 2023 4 hours ago, stilgar said: What a pathetic mother fucker. Same energy. 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matrixman124 Posted April 21, 2023 Share Posted April 21, 2023 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jman Posted April 21, 2023 Author Share Posted April 21, 2023 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
André Toulon Posted April 21, 2023 Share Posted April 21, 2023 (edited) 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 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seight Posted April 22, 2023 Share Posted April 22, 2023 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 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rpgamer Posted April 22, 2023 Share Posted April 22, 2023 Turns out, the marks are still there. Just shifted to a non-visible spectrum. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matrixman124 Posted April 22, 2023 Share Posted April 22, 2023 (edited) Noice Edited April 22, 2023 by matrixman124 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
naraku360 Posted April 22, 2023 Share Posted April 22, 2023 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. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
André Toulon Posted April 22, 2023 Share Posted April 22, 2023 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. 2 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doom Metal Alchemist Posted April 22, 2023 Share Posted April 22, 2023 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 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seight Posted April 22, 2023 Share Posted April 22, 2023 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!" 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PenguinBoss Posted April 22, 2023 Share Posted April 22, 2023 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." 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raptorpat Posted April 22, 2023 Share Posted April 22, 2023 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 2 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matrixman124 Posted April 22, 2023 Share Posted April 22, 2023 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" 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Icarus27k Posted April 22, 2023 Share Posted April 22, 2023 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Icarus27k Posted April 22, 2023 Share Posted April 22, 2023 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1pooh4u Posted April 22, 2023 Share Posted April 22, 2023 1 hour ago, Icarus27k said: C’mon that’s not real 😆 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Icarus27k Posted April 23, 2023 Share Posted April 23, 2023 For unknown reasons, the blue check marks are returning to accounts that haven't paid for them. Looks like another Musk whim. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
discolé monade Posted April 23, 2023 Share Posted April 23, 2023 (edited) 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? 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raptorpat Posted April 23, 2023 Share Posted April 23, 2023 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 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Icarus27k Posted April 23, 2023 Share Posted April 23, 2023 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. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matrixman124 Posted April 23, 2023 Share Posted April 23, 2023 It seems his legal team told him that handing out checkmarks for non-identity protection reasons was kind of illegal. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rpgamer Posted April 23, 2023 Share Posted April 23, 2023 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. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonSinger Posted April 23, 2023 Share Posted April 23, 2023 This apparently happened yesterday, and I suspect they left Dril alone after they brought up Epstein 😭. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1pooh4u Posted April 23, 2023 Share Posted April 23, 2023 Must be nice to have so much $$ that you can buy a social media platform just to troll people and to prevent people from picking on you with their big bad words seriously just don’t use it. There are options out there. Sure they might all be terrible but still 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matrixman124 Posted April 23, 2023 Share Posted April 23, 2023 It's too fun to watch him fuck up 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonSinger Posted April 23, 2023 Share Posted April 23, 2023 4 hours ago, 1pooh4u said: Must be nice to have so much $$ 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. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1pooh4u Posted April 23, 2023 Share Posted April 23, 2023 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 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonSinger Posted April 23, 2023 Share Posted April 23, 2023 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. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Icarus27k Posted April 23, 2023 Share Posted April 23, 2023 (edited) 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 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
katt_goddess Posted April 23, 2023 Share Posted April 23, 2023 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. 1 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matrixman124 Posted April 23, 2023 Share Posted April 23, 2023 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 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1pooh4u Posted April 23, 2023 Share Posted April 23, 2023 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 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rpgamer Posted April 24, 2023 Share Posted April 24, 2023 War never changes 2 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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