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Skeptic Ginger said:
Could be a disaster, reinforcing/increasing the world of post-fact-reality. I hope not.

I'm less concerned about Rump's repeal of his Twitter ban. The news media is really where most of his publicity comes from and he gets that out anyway. For example his latest is calling Prince Harry under the thumb of Markle in the Piers Morgan interview. Rump does that specifically to get a news media response and sure enough, it did.

Rump claims he won't go back to Twitter if Musk allows it. I predict that stand won't last long.

But again, I think the worst is yet to come if Musk keeps to his assertion to make Twitter more free speech friendly. I take that to mean all false claims and CTs are welcome.
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Just wondering how the second post in this thread aged.

Missing quite a bit of self-inflicted dumpster fire, which, to be fair wasn't immediately predictable.
 
Aridas said:
Well...

And So It Begins: NPR announces they're leaving Twitter.
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Hmmm... seems a lot of people are having trouble even leaving replies on Twitter if using their PCs. They can do it if they are on their phones though.

Twitter is turning into ISF! :p

That's just a joke. Twitter is in many ways the opposite of ISF, given that Twitter now serves conspiracy theorist loons and degrades mainstream publications by either trying to slap "state-affiliated" labels on BBC and NPR or removing validation for NYT etc... :rolleyes:
 
dudalb said:
I know, but the problem is they decided to make it a huge PR stunt, and those who live by PR die by PR.
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Really? Most of the people I know who aren't rocket geeks like I am had no idea that it was even happening.

Hence, I agree - as a PR stunt, it was an abject failure.
 
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As has been pointed out repeatedly in this and other threads, many free speech advocates are most concerned about having unfettered access to allow their views to be promulgated and are actively against opposing views seeing the light of day.
 
Twitter finally removed blue-checks from non-subscribed accounts the other day. Though a few accounts of extremely high-profile and popular users retained theirs - Stephen King and LeBron James were the two most widely known, although there were others - despite insisting they never subscribed. Musk eventually claimed that he was personally paying for those subscriptions, which is funny and somewhat pathetic.
 
Checkmite said:
Twitter finally removed blue-checks from non-subscribed accounts the other day. Though a few accounts of extremely high-profile and popular users retained theirs - Stephen King and LeBron James were the two most widely known, although there were others - despite insisting they never subscribed. Musk eventually claimed that he was personally paying for those subscriptions, which is funny and somewhat pathetic.
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I .... um, no. I can't even come up with something to say about this. Sure Musk, you do you :thumbsup:
 
Insane money clown still insane? Check. Still clowning? Check. Still moneyed? Not so much as he used to be. Reassess after his next stupidity to hit the news or one week, whichever is shorter (it's not going to be the week).
 
Checkmite said:
Twitter finally removed blue-checks from non-subscribed accounts the other day. Though a few accounts of extremely high-profile and popular users retained theirs - Stephen King and LeBron James were the two most widely known, although there were others - despite insisting they never subscribed. Musk eventually claimed that he was personally paying for those subscriptions, which is funny and somewhat pathetic.
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The people who paid for the blue check are now trying to go all "Star-Bellied Sneetches" on those who didn't pay. Its not going like they had hoped.
 
Details are not entirely clear so this might not be 100% accurate:

Twitter has apparently reinstated the verified status of every formerly verified account that had 1 million or more followers. The tooltip on their verified badge now states "This account is verified because they are subscribed to Twitter Blue and verified their phone number" even though that is clearly not true. It becomes particularly problematic when the message appears on the accounts of now deceased individuals, such as Norm MacDonald.
 
I Am The Scum said:
Details are not entirely clear so this might not be 100% accurate:

Twitter has apparently reinstated the verified status of every formerly verified account that had 1 million or more followers. The tooltip on their verified badge now states "This account is verified because they are subscribed to Twitter Blue and verified their phone number" even though that is clearly not true. It becomes particularly problematic when the message appears on the accounts of now deceased individuals, such as Norm MacDonald.
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I forgot to mention that one notable exemption to this has been former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey
 
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