From this thread of dead celebrities, it appears that every account with 1 million followers is being blue checked. https://t.co/JYHKnM6G7d— Troy Goodfellow (@TroyGoodfellow) April 22, 2023
― lag∞n, Saturday, 22 April 2023 23:09 (one year ago) link
I feel like I’m craving a very uncomfortable and defensive interview by some dopey marketing or PR executive, where are the goods
― k3vin k., Sunday, 23 April 2023 00:40 (one year ago) link
The blue check thing is exciting for old heads because it's just a good old fashioned message board implosion— krat (@KWholesaler) April 23, 2023
― k3vin k., Sunday, 23 April 2023 02:20 (one year ago) link
Sadly that Blue Blocker thing doesn't seem to work. I wish I'd known about the blocking masterlist before the account got suspended.
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Sunday, 23 April 2023 02:32 (one year ago) link
Listen, aside from the snarky response, this really isn’t appropriate. If you want to verify old accounts somehow to avoid impersonation, cool, but making it look like they’re subscribed? That’s in exceedingly poor taste. My father is dead, and has no say in the matter.— Jack McCain (@McCainJack) April 23, 2023
― jaymc, Sunday, 23 April 2023 02:40 (one year ago) link
The 1M follower thing is true I guess. This guy’s a popular video game designer with 1M followers.
No it’s not and no I didn’t. 😡 pic.twitter.com/cVBSULNDkF— TimOfLegend (@TimOfLegend) April 23, 2023
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 23 April 2023 03:39 (one year ago) link
if someone buys elon some buffy box sets will he stop fucking with the site
― dicbo=v2-ubswizzb&hrt (stevie), Sunday, 23 April 2023 08:40 (one year ago) link
the million follower free checkmark thing applying to dead people might be the funniest bit yet
― mh, Sunday, 23 April 2023 14:05 (one year ago) link
We’ve reached the point where Elon is giving out blue checks out of spite
Elon Musk just gave me mine for free and I’m not even a Hollywood celebhow much are you paying for yours catturd https://t.co/X8eDayOvF6— Matt Binder (@MattBinder) April 22, 2023
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Sunday, 23 April 2023 15:02 (one year ago) link
Huh
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Sunday, 23 April 2023 15:04 (one year ago) link
In the old days I would've assumed this was a joke. But thanks to Elon's checkmark system, I can safely say it's in earnest. pic.twitter.com/ggJJdj2PRD— Matt Novak (@paleofuture) April 23, 2023
― lag∞n, Sunday, 23 April 2023 15:04 (one year ago) link
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Saturday, April 22, 2023 10:32 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
― lag∞n, Sunday, 23 April 2023 16:00 (one year ago) link
oops was going to say it kind of works for me at least you just have to go to the profile of the blue check you want to block (im assuming because thats where the blocking functionality is exposed) like for instance this guy https://twitter.com/Murphybear64 then if you refresh youll see hes blocked so it saves you a couple clicks
― lag∞n, Sunday, 23 April 2023 16:02 (one year ago) link
so a good block the blue workflow might be find a tweet that has a a ton of blue check replies and open the profile of each replier in a new tab then go one by one closing each tab which will in turn load the next tab activating the blocking extension
― lag∞n, Sunday, 23 April 2023 16:05 (one year ago) link
dont worry i reviewed my profile myself and its still really good. please let me change my name back to normal now pic.twitter.com/nlKZpm9Eq9— slave to Woke (@dril) April 23, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 23 April 2023 21:15 (one year ago) link
im looking to advertise my business on a social media platform that elevates the type of people in my replies who yell at the auschwitz museum, does anyone know of an app like that where i can advertise my business— Andrew Lawrence (@ndrew_lawrence) April 23, 2023
― lag∞n, Monday, 24 April 2023 00:37 (one year ago) link
finding identity in a website subscription...........
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fua9fyBWYAMfZDL?format=jpg&name=900x900
― lag∞n, Monday, 24 April 2023 02:42 (one year ago) link
Has there ever been so much self-owning concentrated in one place at one time?
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Monday, 24 April 2023 02:53 (one year ago) link
i get an error message when i try to sign into twitter and i can no longer browse tweets without signing in
― treeship., Monday, 24 April 2023 03:01 (one year ago) link
I'm reminded of when in Fallout 76 the players that bought the membership got a little medal icon next to their name. And all the none paying users hunted them down until they had to live in walled off bunkers.That was also funny.— JustJake (@JustMightyJake) April 23, 2023
― lag∞n, Monday, 24 April 2023 03:32 (one year ago) link
"I'm not a candidate, so we'll see if and when that changes," Gov. DeSantis, who is in Japan right now, says when asked about polls that show him falling behind Trump. pic.twitter.com/nDVeyBoVHN— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) April 24, 2023
― lag∞n, Monday, 24 April 2023 13:32 (one year ago) link
― treeship., Monday, April 24, 2023 4:01 AM (seventeen hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
yeah, i've also been locked out of my account. "we've detected suspicious activity" was the message iirc. now i'm stuck in an authentication test where i move the animal to face in the direction of the hand. i do all 5 correctly and it says 'something is not quite right' every time. it feels like a blessing overall though i will be significantly more news-poor now.
― ꙮ (map), Monday, 24 April 2023 20:09 (one year ago) link
this is actually the single worst thing to happen to Twitter, for me personally at least, because now for every popular tweet the top replies are from the worst people.
― official representative of Roku's Basketshit in at least one alternate u (lukas), Monday, 24 April 2023 21:33 (one year ago) link
The thing i wonder is why these people are paying to amplify their tweets when they’re just repeating the same things a thousand other people are tweeting
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Monday, 24 April 2023 23:41 (one year ago) link
They’re morons
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Monday, 24 April 2023 23:42 (one year ago) link
In my day we would have amplified classier posts, like pics of our bare butts
― Cthulhu Diamond Phillips (Neanderthal), Monday, 24 April 2023 23:43 (one year ago) link
Like check it out, I’m the 48th person to tweet that Powers Booth meme at Scotusblog
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Monday, 24 April 2023 23:44 (one year ago) link
the blue check subscribers that this change to replies is surfacing are genuinely bizarre
― lag∞n, Monday, 24 April 2023 23:50 (one year ago) link
This guy is paying for likes and follows, right?Engagement analytics on this are nonsensical. https://t.co/uxcqlfWxAm— Charlie Carrel (@Charlie_Carrel) April 25, 2023
― dicbo=v2-ubswizzb&hrt (stevie), Tuesday, 25 April 2023 13:50 (one year ago) link
What is the world coming to when obvious nobodies like Steve Albino get so many likes?
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 25 April 2023 13:53 (one year ago) link
omfg lol
― Cthulhu Diamond Phillips (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 25 April 2023 13:54 (one year ago) link
wait, why does charlie carrel have 0 tweets
i might be using nu-twitter wrong
― it's a new day in the international landscape (z_tbd), Tuesday, 25 April 2023 14:04 (one year ago) link
the founder of Thrive UK, a program to end homelessness in the UK, is whining about woke people
― Cthulhu Diamond Phillips (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 25 April 2023 14:06 (one year ago) link
OTM. is there any point in blocking the paid checks, or is it just a bottomless well of idiocy?
(assume it's bottomless)
― bulb after bulb, Tuesday, 25 April 2023 14:06 (one year ago) link
Carrels fairly well known in the poker scene so maybe just knows of Albini through there
― nxd, Tuesday, 25 April 2023 14:27 (one year ago) link
I assume that's the only reason Albini saw his tweet
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Tuesday, 25 April 2023 14:29 (one year ago) link
lol everyone is a creator to these people they have no idea how to deal with the organic power of a poster
Your like:view ratio is out of this world - multitudes higher than the most successful people on the platform. And it was subtweet.Either you're lying, or your brainless, woke nonsense organically outperforms every other creator for some reason.— Charlie Carrel (@Charlie_Carrel) April 25, 2023
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 25 April 2023 14:40 (one year ago) link
Brainworm guys will literally keep tweeting idiocy rather than Googling something
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Tuesday, 25 April 2023 14:42 (one year ago) link
You know what else organically outperformed every other creation for some reason? In Utero by Nirvana.— Will Shead (@DrWillShead) April 25, 2023
― bulb after bulb, Tuesday, 25 April 2023 14:47 (one year ago) link
now that blue checks are floating to the top of replies it basically guarantees that all the worst posters get the first reponse, since no decent poster would ever pay for Twitter Blue. not only do they all say the same shit every single one of them is weirdly obsessed with their like/RT/view metrics and talk about them nonstop. amazing how much worse Twitter got in just one week
― frogbs, Tuesday, 25 April 2023 14:50 (one year ago) link
and it started so high too
― imago, Tuesday, 25 April 2023 14:51 (one year ago) link
they should add the emoticon rating system where you get to choose whether a post makes you laugh, cry, angry, confused, happy, or sick
― z_tbd, Tuesday, 25 April 2023 15:04 (one year ago) link
lol these people are so weird theyre extremely passionate about very dumb things that make no sense
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 25 April 2023 15:08 (one year ago) link
it's not so much funny that the guy doesn't know who albini is but that, as frogz said wrt metrics, they cannot comprehend that someone has followers because they actually DID SOMETHING that people care about, or are like actually funny or clever...everyone who has engagement has to have found a way to game the system or exploit some theoretical algorithm
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 25 April 2023 15:09 (one year ago) link
the twitter blue subscriber accusing someone of paying for engagement my god
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 25 April 2023 15:10 (one year ago) link
it's really funny to look at the replies of someone who has been blocking blue checks and seeing virtually none of the crap you get on other tweets
― mh, Tuesday, 25 April 2023 15:14 (one year ago) link
someone who is good at cards does seem like the person who would have such an obsession in an almost comical way tho xp
― Laurie Anderson’s Singing Bowl Migraine Orchestra (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 25 April 2023 15:15 (one year ago) link
(not dumb things but gaming systems/theoretical algorithms)
― Laurie Anderson’s Singing Bowl Migraine Orchestra (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 25 April 2023 15:16 (one year ago) link
yea it reminds me of how the right loves the term 'virtue signaling' because they themselves have never cared about anything that wasn't in their own self-interest and can't imagine anyone else does either. or how the Dilbert guy assumes the only reason people could possibly disagree with him is because they've been persuaded by powerful master hypnotists. which coincidentally is the exact thing he claims to be able to do.
― frogbs, Tuesday, 25 April 2023 15:16 (one year ago) link