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What a shitshow!

by dotcoma 3y ago

What a shitshow!

JumpCrisscross 3y ago
> What a shitshow! I’m not a fan of Elon qua Twitter CEO. But credit where it’s due: he has the humility to back down.
- augment003 3y ago
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- retrocryptid 3y ago
  Sure. But I also suspect in a week he's going to start saying he didn't gift people checkmarks and that everybody bought one. How are we going to verify that?
  - dragonwriter 3y ago
    > But I also suspect in a week he’s going to start saying he didn’t gift people checkmarks and that everybody bought one. He’s already saying that, since the people “gifted” verified status did not subscribe or verify a phone number (and several have specifically expressly denied doing either), and if you click on the blue check on it says that they are verified because they subscribed to Blue and verified a phone number.
- dragonwriter 3y ago
  > I’m not a fan of Elon qua Twitter CEO. But credit where it’s due: he has the humility to back down. He didn’t “back down”, he gave free Blue to people who said they did not want the product as a gamble that with a little bit of time both their statements and the coverage of him comping it will fade from immediate awareness, but the checkmark still be on the accounts giving a message of endorsement of the offering (also, this article is conflating several different things: giving normal “Blue Check” status to some critics, and the creation of “Yellow Check” verified organizations and “Grey Check” verified “government or multilateral organizations”.) It is also, a gamble that any consequences for the Lanham Act violation inherent in the false endorsement will be sufficiently delayed and of insufficient magnitude to offset the benefit received.
  - BulgarianIdiot 3y ago
    If he gets away with it, he's teaching countless hustlers, swindlers, grifters and conmen that it's open season. Including those already owning other social media right now.
- BulgarianIdiot 3y ago
  He also has the hubris to try again, and again, and again, and again, and again. He backs down, when he can't force the outcome he wanted. That's not humility. Furthermore HE IS NOT BACKING DOWN right now. He's claiming those celebrities, including DEAD ONES, have "subscribed to Twitter Blue and verified their phone". This is false endorsement, and highly illegal.
  - dotcoma 3y ago
    Here we go! https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/24/23695534/twitter-blue-tick-verification-dead-celebrities https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/24/23695534/twitter-blue-tic...

What a shitshow!

JumpCrisscross 3y ago

> What a shitshow! I’m not a fan of Elon qua Twitter CEO. But credit where it’s due: he has the humility to back down.

augment003 3y ago
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retrocryptid 3y ago
Sure. But I also suspect in a week he's going to start saying he didn't gift people checkmarks and that everybody bought one. How are we going to verify that?
- dragonwriter 3y ago
  > But I also suspect in a week he’s going to start saying he didn’t gift people checkmarks and that everybody bought one. He’s already saying that, since the people “gifted” verified status did not subscribe or verify a phone number (and several have specifically expressly denied doing either), and if you click on the blue check on it says that they are verified because they subscribed to Blue and verified a phone number.
dragonwriter 3y ago
> I’m not a fan of Elon qua Twitter CEO. But credit where it’s due: he has the humility to back down. He didn’t “back down”, he gave free Blue to people who said they did not want the product as a gamble that with a little bit of time both their statements and the coverage of him comping it will fade from immediate awareness, but the checkmark still be on the accounts giving a message of endorsement of the offering (also, this article is conflating several different things: giving normal “Blue Check” status to some critics, and the creation of “Yellow Check” verified organizations and “Grey Check” verified “government or multilateral organizations”.) It is also, a gamble that any consequences for the Lanham Act violation inherent in the false endorsement will be sufficiently delayed and of insufficient magnitude to offset the benefit received.
- BulgarianIdiot 3y ago
  If he gets away with it, he's teaching countless hustlers, swindlers, grifters and conmen that it's open season. Including those already owning other social media right now.
BulgarianIdiot 3y ago
He also has the hubris to try again, and again, and again, and again, and again. He backs down, when he can't force the outcome he wanted. That's not humility. Furthermore HE IS NOT BACKING DOWN right now. He's claiming those celebrities, including DEAD ONES, have "subscribed to Twitter Blue and verified their phone". This is false endorsement, and highly illegal.
- dotcoma 3y ago
  Here we go! https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/24/23695534/twitter-blue-tick-verification-dead-celebrities https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/24/23695534/twitter-blue-tic...