oski003 said:AunBear89 said:sycasey said:oski003 said:sycasey said:
This whole blue check debacle shows that Musk truly does not understand the incentives of social media. The whole purpose of the blue check was that it represented VERIFICATION: if you saw a Tweet from, say, LeBron James, the check meant you knew it was actually from him (or at least an account controlled by him). Anyone without a check mark was fake.
To make the whole thing pay-for-play with no verification removes the whole benefit. Anyone can just pay eight bucks and pretend to be LeBron. Why would any celebrity or media organization want to pay for that kind of "service?"
Maybe if they had just opened up the blue check process to everyone (with payment) but as part of it forced them to provide legal identification and use their real names, that would work. Blue checks for celebrities and reporters and also random nobodies would at least all be consistently accurate, and some people would want to pay.
But Elon is too galaxy-brained for that. Now he's made it so no one wants to pay (not even Catturd). Amazing.
It is against their policy. Is nobody enforcing it?
https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/twitter-impersonation-and-deceptive-identities-policy
I have tried hard to understand how this has anything to do with my point, but I have failed.
l003 gonna 003.
You can do better than this.
Unfortunately, I don't think he can.
