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0 pointsTigeriusKirk3y ago0 comments

To date there has been no change in my Twitter experience.

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afavour3y ago· 3 in thread

No but changes have been announced. Fundamentally altering what the "blue tick" means alone will give e.g. major brands pause. As of Tuesday (or whenever they actually launch it) someone will be able to register the Twitter account @C0ca_cola and pay $8 to give it a verified checkmark. If I were Coca-Cola I'd be quite concerned about that.

EricE3y ago

>As of Tuesday (or whenever they actually launch it) someone will be able to register the Twitter account @C0ca_cola and pay $8 to give it a verified checkmark.

And what are you basing that assumption on? Where did he say that for $8 anything goes? If anything he's been very plain that was NOT going to happen, yet people like you still are willing to assume the worse? Again, based on what specifically?

afavour3y ago

Two days later this hasn’t aged very well, has it?

Yoofie3y ago

If they were genuinely concerned about name sniping like that, they could of did the same.

r00fus3y ago

As of this week, Twitter will release the new verified/blue where "verified" means "payment for $8/mo authorized". No actual verification of identity [0].

If this wasn't enough, Musk has confirmed the timeline will essentially shadowban non-verified accounts [1].

So anyone can take anyone's else's name as "verified" and the non-verified will not be seen.

Essentially this means if you have the money you can run dozens or thousands of verified accounts that claim to be anyone.

[0] https://twitter.com/RMac18/status/1588304086792667136

[1] https://twitter.com/somebadideas/status/1588876465915166721?...

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