Or maybe it's more that he's making his own version of the Metaverse, with himself at the center surrounded by bootlicks and lackeys.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 29 March 2023 03:20 (one year ago) link
Looks like this is working now. I was getting error messages when I tried to block all the paid blues earlier but now it seems ok. https://twitter.com/BlockTheBlue
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Wednesday, 29 March 2023 03:27 (one year ago) link
You tell 'em, Emmet Peppers.
It’s a privilege to be on Twitter and to have a blue check mark, not a right nor an inheritance.— Emmet Peppers (@EmmetPeppers) March 27, 2023
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 29 March 2023 03:44 (one year ago) link
Interests: Investing, Tesla, New Tech, Ketosis, Podcasts
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 29 March 2023 04:50 (one year ago) link
Tim Ferriss's cum crusted gym sock gained sentience
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 29 March 2023 04:51 (one year ago) link
Emmet Peppers lonely hearts Musk fan
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 29 March 2023 05:17 (one year ago) link
I guess requiring verification for polls is going to kill the people's pop polls etc
the groke has been working on migrating the polls to a dedicated site for several months now, should be kicking in within weeks
― least said, sergio mendes (sic), Wednesday, 29 March 2023 05:37 (one year ago) link
Not once have I seen anything in the sidebar that I'd willingly click on.
https://i.imgur.com/gbClYJS.png
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 29 March 2023 07:00 (one year ago) link
...nicely done...
― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Wednesday, 29 March 2023 12:14 (one year ago) link
...should've said "stan" but I thought of it too late
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 29 March 2023 12:53 (one year ago) link
excellent work tm
― nxd, Wednesday, 29 March 2023 13:16 (one year ago) link
This is good: https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/28/twitter-is-dying/
The simple truth is that building something valuable — whether that’s knowledge, experience or a network worth participating in — is really, really hard. But tearing it all down is piss easy.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 29 March 2023 23:35 (one year ago) link
Yep
― It’s Only Her Factory, Girl! (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 29 March 2023 23:48 (one year ago) link
lol
We are also launching a new Basic (v2) access for hobbyists with 10,000 GET/month and 50,000 POST/month, 2 app IDs, and Login with Twitter for $100/month. Subscribe now: https://t.co/AQci4FeIWf— Twitter Dev (@TwitterDev) March 29, 2023
― lag∞n, Thursday, 30 March 2023 02:21 (one year ago) link
Lmao
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Thursday, 30 March 2023 05:16 (one year ago) link
And for the Ultra Diamond Platinum account (a one-time payment of $44,000,000) we'll push all of your tweets to every user!
― nickn, Thursday, 30 March 2023 05:43 (one year ago) link
Sorry, $44,000,000,000.
there's a free layer as well, 1,500 tweets a month, ~50 a day. unfortunately that kills Cheap Bots Done Quick which is what my bots use and which hosts thousands of others.
(mm, i wonder if i can cobble together an aws lambda that does the same?)
― koogs, Thursday, 30 March 2023 11:28 (one year ago) link
i dont feel like switching my bots to the new free tier theyre all on v1 hopefully it just keeps working
― lag∞n, Thursday, 30 March 2023 17:46 (one year ago) link
New: The New York Times says it is not planning to pay for Twitter verification:"We aren't planning to pay the monthly fee for verification of our institutional Twitter accounts," a spokesperson tells me.— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) March 30, 2023
He was born a pauper to a pawn on a Christmas DayWhen the New York Times said, "Biden's dead!And ten laptops are free!"
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Thursday, 30 March 2023 18:22 (one year ago) link
The Los Angeles Times also says it will not pay for Twitter Blue, noting "verification no longer establishes authority or credibility." Here's an internal note from managing editor Sara Yasin that went out to staff. pic.twitter.com/DK8c2iAHpJ— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) March 30, 2023
awww did constantly calling the MSM liars and scumbags not work out for you
― frogbs, Thursday, 30 March 2023 18:37 (one year ago) link
curious which direction he's gonna go with this he's either gonna dramatically reduce the cost and get mad when they still don't pay or call everyone a bunch of pedos
― frogbs, Thursday, 30 March 2023 18:39 (one year ago) link
once famous people are sick of being impersonated, I think their only option is to shut down their account and let everyone know (on Instagram) that any tweets you see are not theirs
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Thursday, 30 March 2023 18:43 (one year ago) link
imo musk won't reduce the cost because changing it would be an admission of failure. He won't call everyone a pedo for not paying up, because that would call attention to his failure, too. instead he'll defect attention away from the fiasco as best he can by churning out more attention-grabbing chaotic garbage in heroic quantities until he explodes or no one cares any more and the world stops looking. Or both.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Thursday, 30 March 2023 18:49 (one year ago) link
accounts ive unfollowed in the last couple days are still showing up in my following feed
― lag∞n, Thursday, 30 March 2023 19:04 (one year ago) link
is this good
"From September to October of last year, the top 10 advertisers on Twitter spent $71 million on ads, according to estimates from Pathmatics. In the past two months, that figure dropped to just $7.6 million, a decline of 89%, the research firm said."https://t.co/9R7gWkPAXS— Ken Klippenstein (@kenklippenstein) March 30, 2023
― lag∞n, Thursday, 30 March 2023 19:09 (one year ago) link
I assume he was going for 69% and over-delivered
― rob, Thursday, 30 March 2023 19:12 (one year ago) link
dogshit MSM orgs not paying seems pretty bad for them, feel like most big companies are probably gonna folow suit because Elon's made the very idea of paying for Twitter such a radioactive & desperate thing. obviously Nazi rags like Stormfront and Daily Wire might swoop in but I kinda feel they can't afford it.
― frogbs, Thursday, 30 March 2023 19:26 (one year ago) link
Never mind also all the local governments and non profit organizations absolutely can not and will not pay $120,000 a year for a blue check mark.
― "The pudding incident?" (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 30 March 2023 19:41 (one year ago) link
And again, the reason Twitter had verification was because they got sued over verification.
― "The pudding incident?" (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 30 March 2023 19:43 (one year ago) link
Sued over celebrity impersonators, that is .
― "The pudding incident?" (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 30 March 2023 19:44 (one year ago) link
yea I mean I suspect most big companies are sorta looking at each other like "we doing this er nah?" and if a few go "no because the checkmark is meaningless" I can't imagine any of them will
― frogbs, Thursday, 30 March 2023 19:46 (one year ago) link
I'm curious as to whether he'll start auctioning big media's accounts.
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 30 March 2023 22:09 (one year ago) link
been scrolling twitter for a while and haven't seen any good indictment tweets.... this sucks
― 龜, Thursday, 30 March 2023 22:50 (one year ago) link
pic.twitter.com/FMijgdNblX— future canon (@futurecanon) March 30, 2023
― papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 30 March 2023 22:53 (one year ago) link
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA oops I mean how terrible for Donald Trump— Jeff Tiedrich (@itsJeffTiedrich) March 30, 2023
― lag∞n, Thursday, 30 March 2023 22:56 (one year ago) link
so happy for eric clapton
― Chyiv Kyiv (Fetchboy), Thursday, 30 March 2023 23:00 (one year ago) link
Thank you, BrooklynDad, for indicting former president Donald J Trump
Happy trump Indictment Day, for those who celebrate! 🤣🤣🤣🤣 pic.twitter.com/dy1n6MIppB— BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ (@mmpadellan) March 30, 2023
― Chyiv Kyiv (Fetchboy), Thursday, 30 March 2023 23:04 (one year ago) link
lol its their day you gotta let em have it
― lag∞n, Thursday, 30 March 2023 23:05 (one year ago) link
You do not, under any circumstances, etc.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 30 March 2023 23:05 (one year ago) link
Lol the Clapton guy deserves this
― frogbs, Thursday, 30 March 2023 23:05 (one year ago) link
Which now sends me off on a Redd tangent about the guy who did a deep dive into Real Eric Clapton’s bookshelf.
― It’s Only Her Factory, Girl! (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 30 March 2023 23:11 (one year ago) link
god it's so funny this guy replaced a mostly-functioning verification system with his dumb "show off that you paid me 8 dollars" checkmark which turned out to be so embarrassing they had to add a feature to let you hide it
― frogbs, Friday, 31 March 2023 03:10 (one year ago) link
Hello everyone! My Twitter account may lose its ‘blue tick’ verified status very soon. Please be aware that this will remain my ONLY official Twitter account! Watch out for scammers/impersonators - I do not contact fans or sell anything over Twitter DMs. Thank you!— Peter Hook (@peterhook) March 31, 2023
― groovypanda, Friday, 31 March 2023 13:35 (one year ago) link
I want some sufficiently irony poisoned celebrity to start twitter scamming their own fans now
― Toploader on the road, unite and take over (Bananaman Begins), Friday, 31 March 2023 14:05 (one year ago) link
lmao dude just can't win
Twitter Will Exempt 10,000 Most-Followed Companies and Organizations From $1,000 Monthly Verified-Status Charge: Report https://t.co/ekuJqCj0L0— Variety (@Variety) March 31, 2023
― frogbs, Friday, 31 March 2023 14:30 (one year ago) link
thank god steak-umms keeps the check
― mh, Friday, 31 March 2023 14:40 (one year ago) link
haa
― lag∞n, Friday, 31 March 2023 14:58 (one year ago) link
blue check gonna be a scarlet letter
Welp guess my blue ✔️ will be gone soon cause if you know me I ain’t paying the 5. 🤷🏾♂️— LeBron James (@KingJames) March 31, 2023
― four square ups... no punches thrown (Spottie), Friday, 31 March 2023 16:37 (one year ago) link