The notorious blue tick is no longer optional.
  • AutoTL;DRBEnglish
    0•7 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    X made displaying the blue check optional last summer, and it’s unclear exactly why the platform plans to remove the feature — or when.

    Once a status symbol, the blue check lost some of its luster after X shifted to a paid verification system under Elon Musk’s ownership.

    A blue check then just became an indicator that the account holder paid for a Premium subscription.

    X eventually rolled out the blue check to accounts with more than a million followers, covering most living celebrities (and some dead) as well as public figures.

    Just last week, the platform doled out free blue checks to accounts with high numbers of verified followers — whether the owners wanted them or not.

    The move (despite being announced earlier by owner Elon Musk) took some of these users by surprise.

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  • admiralteal
    0•7 months ago

    I think the most remarkable thing about the Musk takeover of twitter is just how entirely capricious it has been.

    We all knew he was going to do all that crypto-and-noncrypto fascist and narcissistic stuff. That’s just his nature. We knew he was going to be arbitrary in enforcement of his “free speech absolutism” – that it would just be weaponized, as it always is, to favor certain political viewpoints.

    But it’s REALLY remarkable just how seat-of-your-pants it all is. He’s just waking up, deciding he wants something changed, and then snapping his fingers in the air until some stooge walks by and asks what’s wanted.

    Even the acquisition itself seemed like kind of a whim that went too far. There’s clearly no plan whatsoever.