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No one who understood verification thought it was a status symbol. Musk doesn't understand the platform he bought, so he promised to change the existing identi
by jdub 4y ago
No one who understood verification thought it was a status symbol.
Musk doesn't understand the platform he bought, so he promised to change the existing identify verification system – part of a strategy to combat impersonation and misinformation – to a pay-for-play subscription feature.
But Twitter already has a subscription offering! He's just ruining the verification system out of ignorance and spite.
- kcplate 4y ago> No one who understood verification thought it was a status symbol. Doesn’t matter what the “in the know” understood, it’s what the blue checks perceived it to be. To them it was a hard to get item that only folks with some degree of “celebrity” received.
- jdub 4y agoBut even they didn't view it as a status symbol. A bunch of weird, ignorant, mostly right-leaning jerks did.
- kcplate 4y agoI disagree. It was a wide gamut, not just one political ideology. Just the commentary in the last week shows it was across the board. Fox News personalities to AOC to Steven King to a few other Hollywood celebs bitching about it. Wide range of political leaning, common thread…all celebrities.
- jdub 4y agoThey're not "bitching about" more people being verified, they're "bitching about" the wanton, clueless vandalism of the verification system.
- kcplate 4y agoAll I see is a bunch of wealthy and famous folks whining that their little badge of exclusivity has become easily obtainable by the masses for the price of a latte. Boo hoo. Your little blue badge of elitism is now available to the proles, how will you ever cope with such uppityness?
- tsimionescu 4y agoLet's make this simple. Old blue checkmark: Twitter confirms that this person is who they claim to be. If an account is called DonaldTrump and has a blue checkmark, Twitter confirms it is the account of the former president. New blue checkmark: Twitter confirms that someone pays 8 dollars every month. If an account is called DonaldTrump and has a blue checkmark, Twitter confirms that someone is paying 8 dollars every month for this account. So, if you see a tweet from the blue checkmark @DonaldTrump saying "I am running for president", with the new system, you have no idea if the former president has publicly announced he is running again, or if some rando who had 8 dollars to spare wants to make it seem so.
- kcplate 4y ago> So, if you see a tweet from the blue checkmark @DonaldTrump saying "I am running for president", with the new system, you have no idea if the former president has publicly announced he is running again, or if some rando who had 8 dollars to spare wants to make it seem so. Good! I can’t think of a better way to make Twitter better for the world than to eliminate the elitism.
- tsimionescu 4y agoWhat's elitist about confirming the identity of who is speaking?
- kcplate 4y agoNothing, unless you are selectively only confirming specific people.