Twitter C/D

the checks are gone

ok now everybody impersonate all of the celebs who aren't blue checks

so ridiculous

Musk's management approach to Twitter:

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legacy verified blue checks are gone

'Verified' notifications are now a spam filter! feel free to block everyone in there pic.twitter.com/WpWiKCNXLw

— Matt Binder (@MattBinder) April 20, 2023

The only users I’m seeing with blue checks are Glenn Greenwald, BJG, Nina Turner and…Jeff Weiss

uh oh

I’m Tony LaRussa

— Tony LaRussa (@chknpuppetmk5) April 20, 2023

Anybody checked in on the insulin prices today?

So who is paying?
Some of the biggest celebrities to cough up the $8 include musical artists like Rihanna, Taylor Swift, and Miley Cyrus. In fact, of the few celebs that have signed up, singers and artists probably make up the bulk of it. Britney Spears, The Weeknd, Joe and Nick Jonas, Cardi B, Chance the Rapper, Coldplay, David Guetta, Shawn Mendes, and Snoop Dogg are among the other big names in music who have subscribed.
Over in Hollywood, actors Ryan Reynolds, Chris Hemsworth, Hugh Jackman, and Neil Patrick Harris are keeping their blue checkmarks for a monthly fee.

hi everyone. i want to apologize for my past behavior. I am no longer Christian nor Conservative. Also I recognize my performance on Saturday Night Live was not very good and that I should shut up more.

Please forgive me.

— Victoria Jackson (@HornsPanda) April 20, 2023

Very UK pol this: let's shame the people who paid.

The OBR is the ticking time-bomb for Labour's growth strategy - and for urgent defence investment ... it just cannot model investment led growth 👇🏽 https://t.co/3FmL1g75U4

— Paul Mason (@paulmasonnews) April 20, 2023

So ... Donald Trump has no check but Don Jr. does?

I agree with this, I think he's keeping some on there so it looks like they are subscribed

LeBron and Stephen King still having checks makes me think they didn't pay and that Elon specifically preserved theirs because they publicly embarrassed him.

— Barry Petchesky (@barry) April 20, 2023

I remember sth about the top 1000 accounts keeping their blue ticks

I signed up for Twitter blue back in 2021, long before Elon bought the site, bc as a content creator, the ability to post long videos was invaluable. It still is. I respect alternative choices, but someone of us are actually paying for a useful professional service.

I have zero… https://t.co/Cuvym9ovTR

— Briahna Joy Gray (@briebriejoy) April 20, 2023

pic.twitter.com/v8KT8mJ02k

— da jjar (@da_jjar) April 20, 2023

kind of lame to drag her for that IMO

Lol this is hilarious

It's over pic.twitter.com/wWmv86yJdM

— Mr. Bedtime (@InternetHippo) April 20, 2023

kind of lame to drag her for that IMO

Agreed. She's already demonstrated that she's vacuous human garbage in like 8000 other ways...

My Twitter account says I’ve subscribed to Twitter Blue. I haven’t.
My Twitter account says I’ve given a phone number. I haven’t.

— Stephen King (@StephenKing) April 20, 2023

the 'this mo'fo paid for Twitter' burn was actually pretty hilarious the first month or so but I've gotten tired of it.

which isn't to say the move to paid only blue checks isn't completely horrible, because it defeats the purpose of the checks to begin with, and it's just going to increase the amount of fake news and imposters and detritus on that platform.

NEW: Have confirmed that LeBron, who has 52 million followers and has said he won’t pay for verification, was emailed by a Twitter employee with the offer to have his sub comped “on behalf of Elon Musk.”

James did not accept but his account is showing that he paid anyway.

— Alex Heath (@alexeheath) April 20, 2023

I’m paying for a few personally

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 20, 2023

which isn't to say the move to paid only blue checks isn't completely horrible, because it defeats the purpose of the checks to begin with, and it's just going to increase the amount of fake news and imposters and detritus on that platform.

― Cthulhu Diamond Phillips (Neanderthal), Thursday, 20 April 2023 bookmarkflaglink

There are like ten pope Francis imposters on my timeline rn how is this is not great?!

That shit is kinda funny tbh

theyre gonna get sued which is how the blue checks started in the first place

The grifters are crying.

New genre of post: twitter blue subscribers complaining that they aren’t famous enough to get verified for free pic.twitter.com/q5I54nLHdl

— Ed Zitron (@edzitron) April 20, 2023

What Elon doesn't understand about his "$8/month for herpes" offer is that nobody's hung up on the cost, the big issue is the herpes pic.twitter.com/VhoINbh2kc

— Krister Johnson (@KristerJohnson) April 20, 2023

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FuMiTbHWIAAtcbb?format=jpg&name=large

proper lol

It's all been worth it.

Omg cry laughing

they fired so many backend people they just shipped this as a frontend change lmao

Ah, yeah... looks like people who were verified still are verified. He literally just hid it.https://t.co/dXwR8yfsZG

— Alexandra Erin | alexandrae✧✧✧@peoplemak✧✧✧.ga✧✧✧ (@AlexandraErin) April 20, 2023

beautiful

lol

I woke up to a gold Twitter badge. No clue why.

Then saw this email:

As of today, you MUST have a verified account to advertise on Twitter.

I was auto-upgraded to Twitter Gold courtesy of my ad spend, cheers Elon!

I wonder if Meta will follow suit? pic.twitter.com/4YJ4IsGi7W

— Lorenzo Green 〰️ (@mrgreen) April 21, 2023

I'm not saying Musk is doing a good job, working for the right reasons, or even realises what he's doing. BUT the idea of moving twitter away from advertising revenue towards a platform with a nominal user fee is not terrible at its core.

— Unlearning Economics (@UnlearnEcon) April 21, 2023

I mean I see that -- he was made to buy it, he'll want a return -- and you'd think supplying a functioning product would be a good first step

xxp lol this mf spent at least $1000 for Twitter

I'm not sure what the tipping point would be for most media to follow suit, but the way Musk is going we'll probably find out.

Bye, Twitter. 🥺 The tipping point was having to pay for verification, when we feel we add a lot of value. We also feel solidarity with NPR, and share concerns about Twitter’s direction. You can find us on the blog and TikTok. If we join another platform, we’ll send word here. 🫡

— SCOTUSblog (@SCOTUSblog) April 20, 2023

Huh if you're not logged in, looks like they finally killed browsing any trending areas (lmao looks like search as well) – clicking any trending topic or search attempt takes you to a login page. Wild gambit for account growth.

he has not realized that only a small percentage of people share one of his chief derangements, aka “poster’s disease “

Thisisfine.jpg etc

I can practically *feel* the coming uptick in scamming. pic.twitter.com/H1h0j76nUb

— John Scott-Railton (@jsrailton) April 20, 2023

I understand the principled objection to paying for a platform that relies exclusively on user-generated content, but I do think there was a time when people might have paid for a premium tier of Twitter. And not even a verified check necessarily, just access to better features. The problem is that the platform isn't what it used to be. Lots of people have left. It doesn't feel as dynamic anymore -- not as fun and freewheeling as it was the early 2010s and not as ~vital~ as it seemed in the late 2010s. A bunch of people who are paying for Twitter are convinced that legacy verified users are refusing to pay as a form of virtue signaling, and maybe it's true that many of them don't want to outright support Elon because of who he is, but I'd guess that for most of them the current state of the platform just isn't worth it.

Huh if you're not logged in, looks like they finally killed browsing any trending areas (lmao looks like search as well) – clicking any trending topic or search attempt takes you to a login page. Wild gambit for account growth.

― ヽ（´ー｀）┌ (CompuPost), Friday, April 21, 2023 10:04 AM (fifty-eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Yeah, even though I no longer have an account, I would still search for things on Twitter from time to time. Now all that's visible are Elon Musk, pictures of dogs, and other twitter randos.

it's just insulting to them, people are constantly trying to get celebrities to do interviews, come to this party, come to this event, do something for this media outlet, this social media platform, etc etc., here's a gift bag worth $5k

so they are just like this mf freak wants me to PAY?

that's really all it is

Also, if some people aren't paying simply as a fuck-you to Elon, well, there's a reason why most CEOs don't act like annoying edgelords.

i don't think elon gets out much? definitely not used to rubbing elbows with other important or famous people, certainly not ones in media. if you wanted to destroy twitter, i couldn't think of a better plan than to get this mfer to buy it. i'm still locked in a "verification" test that doesn't work. i'm relieved my habit is blocked tbh.

the scarlet checkmark is so toxic that people are begging twitter to remove it pic.twitter.com/38QH6evMjB

— Shawn Hils (@ShawnHils) April 21, 2023

xp he did sort of date a pop star, but one who is also a cringe dipshit