Twitter C/D

blue check, blue check official, blue check lite

A lot of folks have asked about how you'll be able to distinguish between @TwitterBlue subscribers with blue checkmarks and accounts that are verified as official, which is why we’re introducing the “Official" label to select accounts when we launch. pic.twitter.com/0p2Ae5nWpO

— Esther Crawford ✨ (@esthercrawford) November 8, 2022

Not all previously verified accounts will get the “Official” label and the label is not available for purchase. Accounts that will receive it include government accounts, commercial companies, business partners, major media outlets, publishers and some public figures.

— Esther Crawford ✨ (@esthercrawford) November 8, 2022

The new Twitter Blue does not include ID verification – it’s an opt-in, paid subscription that offers a blue checkmark and access to select features. We’ll continue to experiment with ways to differentiate between account types.

— Esther Crawford ✨ (@esthercrawford) November 8, 2022

She slept on the floor for this?

this is terrible product management

Oh good, I was worried a whole day would go by without a hilariously stupid development.

Soothes the dumbest blue checks who think it is a special privilege, keeps the door open for the grifters because their victims will never go looking for the “official” tag.

BRB, claiming @GeirHongro

I actually have a new prediction: Elon musk is going to create a second kind of blue check that will be given to those who already have them. Perhaps it’s not a blue check - or maybe the $8/month isn’t for a blue check. Either way, it’s going to be very funny

— Ed Zitron (@edzitron) November 1, 2022

got him lol

Good piece, about right imo.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/11/08/1062886/heres-how-a-twitter-engineer-says-it-will-break-in-the-coming-weeks/

― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, November 8, 2022 3:42 PM (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

it should have occurred to me that if they actually fired engineers based on code commits or whatever, then they fired all the people who keep the site running

Note I am skeptical the site will break in the coming weeks, more likely the product and advertiser situation fails to stabilise and that does medium term damage. But it would be extremely funny if the product breaks and that article makes a good case that it might happen.

lmao @ sending this lady out to announce the plan, I guess Elon didn't wanna admit he capitulated

is there anything we can do to help it break

tweet @ Elon that crypto lowers sperm count, he'll black out and go on a banning spree

Official

look this is undoubtedly a better idea than just letting everyone be "verified" for $8 but I bet you Elon personally is gonna make a lot of decisions regarding who gets to keep "verified" status

thing is they just should let anyone who wants to get verified but theyre unwilling or unable to actually do the verification, and it should be free, or they could even charge a one time processing fee sure why not, but fake verification as a revenue stream is just wrong and shortsighted, as many have pointed out twitter itself greatly benefits from having reliable identities on there

lmfao

Update: It's now gone https://t.co/5C0t7txi14

— Marques Brownlee (@MKBHD) November 9, 2022

I just killed it

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 9, 2022

things just went from "well, this could have been done better" to "we like the shitshow option better for now"

Poor Esther slept on the floor for this

$8chan

twitter itself greatly benefits from having reliable identities on there

on the whole I'd say the general anonymity of posters on the internet is more of a bane than a boon. it promotes recklessness through lack of accountability. but it is now deeply embedded in all our expectations of how the internet works and any imposition of rules requiring use of your true identity would cause riots. people like to indulge their own recklessness, even if they deplore it in others.

good post
might kinda qualify for the post / username thread too

No problem with people not using their real names online (or offline, really). A pseudonymous identity is fine as long as it’s fairly stable and doesn’t involve impersonation.

Facebook has people posting blood and soil fascism attached to their real names, photos and places of employment.

people posting blood and soil fascism attached to their real names, photos and places of employment

it's not like anyone willing to do that under their true name will ever shrink from owning their fascism under any circumstances. still seems marginally preferable to their doing it pseudonymously.

Googling around reveals that this may have been being pushed out for a few months now, but I opened the app earlier this morning and it popped up asking to connect to other devices on my local network. Uh, no thanks. When I saw it I assumed the worst of Elon, but I guess this was being rolled out before he came into the picture as part of the newer ios requirements for asking permission. Something to do with video casting, but skeptical af as to why Twitter would need that.

The official label is still going out as part of the @TwitterBlue launch -- we are just focusing on government and commercial entities to begin with. What you saw him mention was the fact that we're not focusing on giving individuals the "Official" label right now.

— Esther Crawford ✨ (@esthercrawford) November 9, 2022

im personally all for internet anonymity but for twitter its good for them if official sources are official, as far as randos prob doesnt make much difference

but if randos want it let them have it why not thats called customer service, having it be a profit center obvs corrupts the whole idea tho

the labels shd be "nob" for blue ticks and "mob" for the rest of us, its in the constitution in fancy C18 language (nobility vs mobility)

Yes Reddit has proven than even “moderated” anonymity is a failure.

$8chan roffle

idk anonymity is also extremely important for marginalized people (especially trans people) plus lots and lots of people who do not live in the USA. I've also heard a few nightmare anecdotes about getting verified by FB requiring you to upload passports and the like

yeah there are good legit reasons to be anon like safety for vulnerable people, and good non legit reasons like its nice and its internet, i dont think reddit really proves anything outside reddit sucks and maybe huge platforms suck (something proven by all huge platforms including and maybe especially facebook which requires real names)

Outside of Facebook I don’t think I’ve ever used a gendered username anywhere, and there’s a reason for that.

which is not to say that huge platforms dont have nice qualities too but lets be real how many serious genocide attempts have been promoted via facebook at this point

xp
Yes, excellent point. See also ethnicity, religion, and caste for last names.

gyac and lagoon both otm that FB puts the lie to non-anonymity being preventative of much

reddit seems to be moderately successful?

on the other hand I've heard rumblings that most of their new traffic is all porn

should also be noted that to some extent were all vulnerable to bad things happening re our names being tied to our posts whats the chance say the usa goes full fash in the next five years its not zero even tho im a cis white straight american male info worker doesnt mean i really want public posts next to my real name saying “ it is good too burn police stations lol”, thats a dramatic example but you could get fired lose yr health care etc over some fb bs too

Facebook has people posting blood and soil fascism attached to their real names, photos and places of employment.

― after several days on “the milk,” (gyac), Wednesday, November 9, 2022 12:51 PM (fifty-one minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

I think Twitter anonymity is more "u know Miles Prower from Sonic the Hedgehog eats ass" type stuff

lmao it's happening already

Josh McDaniels is out as head coach of the Las Vegas Raiders, sources tell ESPN. pic.twitter.com/iS58wVVThK

— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefterN0T) November 9, 2022

¡Nueva York, no me voy a ningún lado! ¡Estoy feliz de anunciar que renuncié con los yankees por 3 años más! #RepBX ________________________________________
New York, I’m not going anywhere! I’m happy to announce i’ve re-signed with the Yankees for 3 more years! #RepBx pic.twitter.com/jbgELEppHe

— Aroldis Chapman (@AroIdisChapman) November 9, 2022

Weird use of "renunciar" in that tweet.

Did he mean "me renuí"? Still doesn't sound right but closer.

I think he needs a new Spanish tweeter.

hah I zeroed in on that too, first clue it was fake

*me reuní

absolute fucking pandemonium. this is the end of this website pic.twitter.com/RhAK7VOEst

— adrian (@crawf34) November 9, 2022

The goal of Twitter DMs is to superset Signal

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 9, 2022

love to superset signal

this is a good point. twitter's product development is slow in part because if they are required to follow an extremely pedantic process agreed with the FTC in order to settle with them. i'm thinking this is not what musk is doing.

By the way, is there anyone left at Twitter who remembers that the company is still under a pretty stringent FTC consent decree that has, you know, some requirements about launching new products & services and having a written plan about their security? https://t.co/ZjytSLUq1W pic.twitter.com/Wc1iJKeEEZ

— Mike Masnick (@mmasnick) November 9, 2022

unless the FTC has any actual teeth to enforce that decree, i don't think musk cares much about it - see his own agreement with the SEC to have an outside advisor pre-approve all tweets, which is also not what musk is doing

no i'm sure he doesn't, but the FTC does have enforcement capabilities.

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