The Twit destroying Twitter is a Twaitor
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You know what I realized I haven't heard about in a long time? Those hexagonal NFT avatars. They were introduced before Elon took over, people made a big stink about them at the time, and then everyone just kind of forgot about them. Do they still exist? Has Elon made any attempts to get people to buy them?
Twitter wasn't selling the NFTs themselves, it was just a way to display existing NFTs as your Twitter avatar.
The hexagonal avatars still exist, though they're of limited use to tell who to avoid, because they require having twitter blue, which is a more universal indicator of who to avoid.
The hexagonal avatars still exist, though they're of limited use to tell who to avoid, because they require having twitter blue, which is a more universal indicator of who to avoid.
Wow, so Twitter was hopping on a briefly-profitable but also widely-reviled trend in a way that wasn't even making them any money??? Yeah, I'm starting to see why the company was in such bad shape financially that they were desperate to sell themselves off.
Twitter wasn't looking to sell themselves off though. Oh sure, they were entertaining buyers but every company does that. It's just what you do in capitalism. Elon came along and wanted a seat at the High Table and was told to go hug himself. That's what made him put in the bid. And then try everything in his power to back out once he realized it was going to cost him.
Ironbite-and it's going to continue to cost him.
Ironbite-and it's going to continue to cost him.
Heh, just came here to post the same thing from a different source.
arstechnica.com
Twitter quietly edited its hateful conduct policy to drop transgender protections
Musk says his own tweets might be labeled under new hateful conduct policy.
arstechnica.com
He's "paying" for these not out of the goodness of his heart but so they'll notice him. His response to Stephen King's tweet was just....so cringy.
Ironbite-can't wait to read him get torn apart by an eldritch being and never mentioned again in the next book though.
Ironbite-can't wait to read him get torn apart by an eldritch being and never mentioned again in the next book though.
It turns out that they couldn't work out a way to mass unverify people who had legacy blue ticks, so instead they just hid the blue ticks on the front end:
Elon Musk says he’ll take NPR’s username if they don't return to Twitter
For weeks, Elon Musk applied his top-notch middle-school bully tactics to NPR on his failing social media network, Twitter. First Musk tagged NPR as “state-affiliated media,” which is not, and never was true. This resulted in NPR having the same label...
www.dailykos.com
I think he genuinely thinks being on twitter is what gives news outlets legitimacy rather than the other way around.
We should check in on how many Twitter Blue subscribers. Last time we heard, we started at 640,000 and Elon was sure many more would be following. After all, who doesn't enjoy telling their favorite celebrity they're a slur right?
mashable.com
Ironbite-that's...a concerning drop-off.
More than half of Twitter Blue's earliest subscribers are no longer subscribed
The early birds cancel their subscriptions.
mashable.com
Ironbite-that's...a concerning drop-off.
