Elon Musk $44 Billion Twitter deal

Originally Posted by Julian

Seriously who gives a funk?

Sequoia Capital, Binance, Qatar Investment Authority, AM Management and Consulting, BAMCO, DFJ Growth IV Partners, Honeycomb Asset Management, Key Wealth Advisors, Lawrence J. Ellison Revocable Trust, Litani Ventures, Strauss Capital LLC, Tresser Blvd 402 LLC (Cartenna), Witkoff Capital, Brookfield, VyCapital, AH Capital Management, Aliya Capital Partners, Fidelity Management & Research, Bank of America, Barclays, BNP Paribas, Mizuho, Morgan Stanley, MUFG, and Societe Generale, who have helped fund the buyout, and around 200 million active daily users…

Originally Posted by Julian

Seriously who gives a funk?

Twitter employees (those who managed not to get sacked ... yet).

[TheDaddy]

Thanks to paid verification Lockheed Martin and Eli Lilly both lost billions in market value thanks to fake verified tweets

Ooh 18000 posts

What on earth made him think that was a good idea, it was obvious what would happen, the guy is clueless.

Originally Posted by Paul

What on earth made him think that was a good idea, it was obvious what would happen, the guy is clueless.

Yup, they've paused it for now: https://www.theguardian.com/technolo...ostor-accounts

It does seem he has just got high on his own supply and is making decisions based on how wacky they'll be or how much they'll 'trigger' people.

There is also this: https://twitter.com/GergelyOrosz/sta...37099496255490

Scoop from within Twitter: small things are breaking, not enough engineers to fix them.

Noticed that notification counts are not showing? The BE service powering it is down since Thursday. A bug was filed, but the team that would fix it is full on with verification work.

Jesus got to be verified too…

Credit to whoever got that name 16 years ago!

We can mock Elon for his woes, that said, I’ve subbed to Twitter Blue, for shits n giggles, just before they paused subscriptions. I thought with all the backlash of fake accounts using branded names, past leaders and getting verified, Elon would reverse verification on sub accounts, but we got to keep it for now. No new account after Nov 9th can get verified, once verified via Twitter Blue, name changes aren’t allowed, but Elon tweeted this morning that function will be allowed from Friday, so some other changes are incoming, we shall see.

That verification is a powerful tool, not coz of the tick, in the sense that before Elon changed it all, only elites noticed elites and there is a reason for that, verified users can ignore everyone else, if they choose to, most do, so all those who vent at verified folk in their replies, no notifications will be sent.

I’ve already ranted at Rishi Sunak, Keir Starmer, Suella Braverman, using their handles, they’ll certainly have a better chance to notice it, even if they select to get notifications from verified users only.

Elon it seems wants a level playing field.

[BenMcr]

Originally Posted by Mick

only elites noticed elites

The original Twitter verification program wasn't to create elites, it was to fight impersonation and fraud

https://blog.twitter.com/official/en...ying-ball.html

Verified Accounts Beta (A Sneak Peak)

We do recognize an opportunity to improve Twitter user experience and clear up confusion beyond simply removing impersonation accounts once alerted. We’ll be experimenting with a beta preview of what we’re calling Verified Accounts this summer.

Not Playing Ball
Verified Accounts will feature a special seal.

The experiment will begin with public officials, public agencies, famous artists, athletes, and other well known individuals at risk of impersonation. We hope to verify more accounts in the future but due to the resources required, verification will begin only with a small set.

https://help.twitter.com/en/managing...ication-policy

The blue Verified badge on Twitter lets people know that an account of public interest is authentic. To receive the blue badge, your account must be authentic, notable, and active.

It's a recent skewing of the reason for the ticks by some groups that has turned it an assumption of it being an 'elite' symbol

https://news.yahoo.com/twitters-blue...173746328.html

While the “blue check” (which is actually a white checkmark in a blue frame, or black checkmark in a white frame if you are using Twitter in dark mode) has come to be viewed in some circles as an elite status symbol for the rich and famous, its purpose has always been to ensure that the people and accounts tweeting are who they say they are. As such, it benefited Twitter as much — if not more — as it benefitted the accounts that were verified, by clamping down on impersonations.

[TheDaddy]

Twitters offices will be closed until monday 21st, it's being speculated that it's because thousands of staff reacted badly to musks work long hours intensely or leave email and took up the option to quit, not sure if this is accurate or being reported yet but there could be as few as 2000 employees left when offices reopen, what a mess....

[jfman]

It’s looking really bad for that other well known left-leaning snake pit.

Originally Posted by TheDaddy

Twitters offices will be closed until monday 21st, it's being speculated that it's because thousands of staff reacted badly to musks work long hours intensely or leave email and took up the option to quit, not sure if this is accurate or being reported yet but there could be as few as 2000 employees left when offices reopen, what a mess....

This graphic seems to be getting a lot more use lately.

h/t @MisterABK



https://twitter.com/misterabk/status...ZLUktO5Z-9GS9A

[TheDaddy]

I thought this was a joke,

someone tweeted they were in charge of badge access in the HQ building and were laid off, musk himself called him after the lay off and asked if he could come back and help them regain access to the building as everyone was accidentally locked out,

I thought that pretty amusing until I scrolled through the thread and there was musk saying

thanks for helping out, you're a life saver

Maybe he paid off the guy’s mortgage?