Elon Musk takes over Twitter

I would be stunned.

I know my organization won't, nor would I want them to.

 

Nah, they’ll just make the reporters pay for their own check marks.

 

If you run a news organization and have an employee willing to pay for a blue check, you made a bad hire.

 

I didn’t say the employee was willing. I said the employer would make the employee pay.

 

Appropriate since the platform is run by a Fool ...

 

One of the clowns on so-called "Legal Twitter" (Dr. Alison Gill, who has no practice and runs a podcast network) kicked up a public snit a year or so ago because she couldn't get 'certified.'

 

The original idea of the blue check was simply authentication of identity.

Made sense for people in the public sphere, whose accounts might otherwise have been hijacked by trolls and pranksters.

Made less and less sense as time went on however, and they became blue ribbons for status-seekers, and bullseyes for anyone's ideological opponents.

The idea that Elon is now going to sell them to people who want to buy them but not display them is Idiocracy perfected.

 

Back in the day my career goal at the TV network where I was employed was to get my name on a parking spot.
Two days after I finally reached it…our show was canceled (FU John Skipper) and I was shown the door.

I feel the same way about the blue check…for years I hoped to get one…but now that I can I don’t want it (FU Elon Musk)!

 

Is this bad?

Why advertisers aren’t coming back to Twitter

 

This is what I find so remarkable about Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter. He has shown he has no basic understand of the platform's appeal and why people use it.

The "legacy" blue check people ARE the product. I'm on Twitter all the time. I'm there to get thoughts from Spencer Hall, Mina Kimes, Jason Isbell, and a funny drunk lawyer from Phoenix. I'm sure as shit not there to get what @john28576254 thinks about the Jews.

I assume Musk is making some great statement by minimizing the respected voices and boosting the Nazis and suckups and incels, but he's draining what's left of the value of his $44 billion toy.

 

Musk wants people to talk about him and adore him. Legacy blue check marks won’t do that, but some incel living in his mom’s house who pretends that they are Maggie Haberman will.