Every chaotic twist and turn in the Twitter saga.
October 27, 2022Musk touted his takeover as Twitter as a win for free speech. In fact, he said he bought the platform"to try to help humanity, whom I love". What people read that to mean was that Musk would reduce standards intended to avoid hate speech. Speculation that Donald Trump would be allowed back hasn't proved founded yet – he's still persevering with Truth, his own platform that so far has been about as successful as his attempt to launch his own brand of steaks.
He then fired around half of Twitter's staff of 7,500, with major cuts reported in communications, human rights, machine learning, algorithmic ethics and trust and safety. Yoel Roth, head of the latter, said his department had lost 15% of its staff but attempted to offer some reassurance, insisting that front-line moderation staff had been least impacted.Thank you. A thermonuclear name & shame is exactly what will happen if this continues.
But on the hunt for new sources of revenue, Musk saw an opportunity to 'democratise' this... or rather capitalise it. Now anyone could have a blue tick – if they paid $8 a month for it. Twitter itself didn't foresee any problem with this, until...Can't imagine why all the advertisers are pulling out of Twitter lmao pic.twitter.
Any UI designer could probably have come up with a solution that might have worked , but presumably Twitter doesn't have any designers left. As it was, fake accounts sprang up for everything from famous athletes and world leaders to pharmaceuticals companies and arms manufacturers And there was nobody about to step in quickly because everyone had been fired.People and companies who bought blue ticks included a fake Donald Trump, James LeBron Lockheed Martin, Nintendo, Eli Lilly and more.
UPDATE—Just learned that Eli Lilly executives are raging and furious at losing $20 billion in market cap from this stunt with @TwitterBlue. It’s too bad they don’t see their own damn insulin price gouging as the actual problem. Karma @LillyPad, karma. pic.twitter.com/AzXRpMH8miYou've now got new fake accounts spoofing the apology of the real account for the behavior of the other fake accounts. pic.twitter.
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