Remember last year when Elon Musk rushed out Twitter Blue? And that became a train wreck next to a dumpster fire in short order with rampant occurrences of impersonation among other things that made Elon look like a loser, and forcing him to pull Twitter Blue for a few weeks? We might be seeing another round of that. There is now a lot of confusion over what being “verified” actually means on Twitter. Part of that is due to Elon being forced to backpedal pulling legacy verifications from people because of the epic backlash that this move has generated. In effect giving them more time to pay him, unless Elon doesn’t like you:
As I type this, the vast majority of legacy verified accounts still have their blue checkmark. On top of that there’s checkmarks for the few Twitter Blue subscribers that are out there. And if you click on any of the checkmarks, you get this message:
In the past, this message said “This account is verified because it’s notable in government, news, entertainment, or another designated category.” What that means is that it’s no longer possible to see whether the blue checkmark is for a notable account, or someone who has paid Elon. Which means anyone to pretend to be anyone yet again for $8 a month. Lovely.
What’s worse is that various people are saying that removing the legacy checkmarks is a manual process. Which means that this confusion might last weeks or months. That is another sign that Elon really didn’t think this through before pulling the trigger on this. Though he never thinks anything through before doing it because he not that guy. Not to mention that he’s desperate for cash.
And here’s the final part of this that is bad for Elon. I imagine a scenario where the continuation of Twitter’s policy of getting people to pay for blue checkmarks next to their name would make an account LESS valuable because it would be seen as less legitimate. Which I am sure is the exact opposite of what Elon would expect to happen. And further illustrates that Elon doesn’t really think these sorts of things through.
The bottom line is that Elon has really dropped himself in it again. And there’s no clear path that I can see to get himself out of it without having to eat some metaphorical crow in the process. And his ego is too fragile to eat some crow by saying that he got it wrong. Thus this situation is likely to be a gong show for a very long time.
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Elon Musk Has Created A Real Mess With His Verification Scheme
Remember last year when Elon Musk rushed out Twitter Blue? And that became a train wreck next to a dumpster fire in short order with rampant occurrences of impersonation among other things that made Elon look like a loser, and forcing him to pull Twitter Blue for a few weeks? We might be seeing another round of that. There is now a lot of confusion over what being “verified” actually means on Twitter. Part of that is due to Elon being forced to backpedal pulling legacy verifications from people because of the epic backlash that this move has generated. In effect giving them more time to pay him, unless Elon doesn’t like you:
As I type this, the vast majority of legacy verified accounts still have their blue checkmark. On top of that there’s checkmarks for the few Twitter Blue subscribers that are out there. And if you click on any of the checkmarks, you get this message:
In the past, this message said “This account is verified because it’s notable in government, news, entertainment, or another designated category.” What that means is that it’s no longer possible to see whether the blue checkmark is for a notable account, or someone who has paid Elon. Which means anyone to pretend to be anyone yet again for $8 a month. Lovely.
What’s worse is that various people are saying that removing the legacy checkmarks is a manual process. Which means that this confusion might last weeks or months. That is another sign that Elon really didn’t think this through before pulling the trigger on this. Though he never thinks anything through before doing it because he not that guy. Not to mention that he’s desperate for cash.
And here’s the final part of this that is bad for Elon. I imagine a scenario where the continuation of Twitter’s policy of getting people to pay for blue checkmarks next to their name would make an account LESS valuable because it would be seen as less legitimate. Which I am sure is the exact opposite of what Elon would expect to happen. And further illustrates that Elon doesn’t really think these sorts of things through.
The bottom line is that Elon has really dropped himself in it again. And there’s no clear path that I can see to get himself out of it without having to eat some metaphorical crow in the process. And his ego is too fragile to eat some crow by saying that he got it wrong. Thus this situation is likely to be a gong show for a very long time.
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