Elon Musk Says Twitter Is Launching A New Color-Coded Verification Scheme Next Week -- Here's What We
Source: Forbes
Elon Musk Says Twitter Is Launching A New Color-Coded Verification Scheme Next Week Heres What We Know So Far
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Gold ticks will be given to verified company accounts and gray ticks will be handed to government accounts.
Blue checks will now be given to all verified individuals, celebrity or not, Musk said, explaining that the boundary of what constitutes notable is otherwise too subjective.
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Musk described the implementation of manual verification as a painful, but necessary step to tackle impersonation. Given the mass firing and exodus of staffers since Musk took the reins in October, this process is likely to add considerable strain to Twitters already pressured workforce.
Replying to questions on Twitter asking whether the check marks will actually help users differentiate between similar accounts, Musk acknowledged the possibility the scheme will not go to plan and vowed to act accordingly. Deliberate impersonation or deception will result in account suspension, he said, adding that users could use organizational affiliation, biography and follower counts to help distinguish between accounts with the same name. Musk said Twitter could show follower counts under peoples names on tweets and allow filtering based on follower amount if it actually becomes a problem.
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Read more: https://www.forbes.com/sites/roberthart/2022/11/25/elon-musk-says-twitter-is-launching-a-new-color-coded-verification-scheme-next-week---heres-what-we-know-so-far/
This is of course still going to create chaos.
And given the symbolism attached to the colors gold and gray, it's interesting that businessman Musk is giving gold to businesses and gray to government.
Tweet where I found this:
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dalton99a
(81,472 posts)Mankind owes Him a debt of gratitude for this pioneering work
NEXT: For an extra $99.99/month, you can choose a custom color
highplainsdem
(48,975 posts)he does.
And I'm starting to see a lot of the "he sacrificed a life of luxury to help us" crap I used to see about Trump from his followers.
Hell, the Daily Caller even tweeted an article about how much less Musk is worth now, which of course is do to his crazy behavior and incompetence, as something he sacrificed for a noble cause.
dalton99a
(81,472 posts)------------------------------------------------------
Nice performance
Ford_Prefect
(7,895 posts)ShazzieB
(16,389 posts)Factory floor? Factory? What factory?
NotHardly
(1,062 posts)fleabiscuit
(4,542 posts)Salviati
(6,008 posts)selling out all of the credibility built up over the years to make a buck.
Mike Nelson
(9,953 posts)... probably an attempt to get users signing up for monthly auto-deductions from their bank accounts.
LudwigPastorius
(9,139 posts)iluvtennis
(19,852 posts)reACTIONary
(5,770 posts)NullTuples
(6,017 posts)Red social democrats, liberals, socialists, communists, anarchists, trade unionists, Freemasons
Green convicts and criminals
Blue foreign forced laborers and emigrants
Purple Jehovah's Witnesses
Pink LGBTQ
Black asocial and work-shy; mentally ill & disabled, other disabled people, autistics, vagrants and beggars, pacifists and conscription resisters, sex workers, lesbians.
Brown Roma
Yellow - Jews
(For those who are unaware, that's the color scheme for the triangles affixed to people's clothing when they were put into German concentration camps during WWII. Elon Musk has a habit of promoting far right wing people, groups and ideals, including overt promotion of Nazism. For those who have doubts or think that's hyperbole: https://securityboulevard.com/2022/11/tesla-ceo-promotes-nazism-while-trying-to-undercut-german-government/ )
bucolic_frolic
(43,146 posts)TimeToGo
(1,366 posts)And then fade out.
He's a disaster.
2naSalit
(86,579 posts)rsdsharp
(9,170 posts)It reminds me of a radio station I worked at. The owner talked about Eagles and Buzzards. The eagles were the sales staff, and the air/programming staff were the buzzards.
There is always tension between the two; sales tells air that they wouldnt get paid without sales. Air tells sales the wouldnt have anything to sell without air. But that was ridiculous
TheBlackAdder
(28,189 posts).
Celebs will eventually get their own color as they are the ones who drive most of the traffic.
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NullTuples
(6,017 posts)Once he does, that decade-plus of data he bought will become more valuable by orders of magnitude.
*on FB some old accounts were grandfathered in despite not being verified.
LymphocyteLover
(5,644 posts)unless maybe there is a problem with your account
Ms. Toad
(34,069 posts)ID verification is the exception, not the rule.
Martin68
(22,794 posts)a troll being paid by a government to spread propaganda and misinformation formation? He is stupidly naive.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,956 posts)Ford_Prefect
(7,895 posts)LymphocyteLover
(5,644 posts)Last edited Mon Nov 28, 2022, 02:46 PM - Edit history (1)
ShazzieB
(16,389 posts)LymphocyteLover
(5,644 posts)fixed
NullTuples
(6,017 posts)https://www.thenationalnews.com/business/technology/2022/11/24/elon-musk-refusing-to-pay-twitter-travel-expenses-report-says/?outputType=amp
"He is now refusing to pay travel vendors for the bills, which he said were authorised by the company's former management and not him, and his staff are subsequently avoiding calls from the vendors.
Twitter employees have been instructed to renegotiate technology service deals with the companies such as Amazon and Oracle, while corporate credit cards have been shut off, the report said.
Employee benefits [previously part of their compensation] that have been trimmed include subsidised gym passes, phone and internet bills and childcare stipends."
Ford_Prefect
(7,895 posts)It is clear he's got a first class understanding of contracts and billing.
The litigation will last for years after the default and foreclosure. They'll have to send Big Luca to get anything out of Eloon.
I can see he'll go far.
Solly Mack
(90,764 posts)paleotn
(17,912 posts)somaticexperiencing
(312 posts)Stuart G
(38,421 posts)....If advertisers leave, & important employees, leave who is left? Donald Trump?
Musk hasn't got a clue...according to Stu...
somaticexperiencing
(312 posts)his fair share of stoopid. moran.
socially maladapted misfit like the rest of their clan.
Achilles Skye
(24 posts)by being able to retain enough employees to change the color of an icon.
Random Boomer
(4,168 posts)A sure-fire way to break any site is to push new code. The trick is recovering. Rollbacks don't always fix what you broke.
Kennah
(14,261 posts)CaptainTruth
(6,589 posts)For example:
"The ubiquitous blue check mark currently used for all verified accounts will be replaced with a system of blue, gold and gray ticks, Musk said."
No, the blue check mark is NOT currently used for all verified accounts, it's given to everyone willing pay $8 a month, verified or not. It used to only be given to verified accounts until Eloon changed it about 2 weeks ago. Now he seems to changing it back & a bunch of people who paid $8 & got a blue check for a couple weeks will have it taken away unless they get verified.
When it comes to running a social media company, Eloon is an idiot.
Ford_Prefect
(7,895 posts)I can see that's gonna work out really, really well. Who's verifying the verifiers?