[MBCook]

Verification isn’t/wasn’t (supposed to be) about how often you used the platform.

It was so journalists and celebrities and such could be identified and you could tell if you were intersecting with the genuine article or a fake account impersonating them.

90 days to sign up before people lose their check mark. So 90 days until the clones come out.

I’m sure this has nothing to do with the MASSIVE amount of debt Twitter is now in and desperately needing money. Or getting back at all the journalists (a huge chunk of verified users) who Musk seems to hate.

3 days. It took 3 days to make a colossally stupid official policy change.

Also? Who comes up with a feature and gives the programmers a very short deadline with a threat to fire them if they can’t make it? That’s horribly cruel.

Oh right. Musk.

[ascagnel_]

> Who comes up with a feature and gives the programmers a very short deadline with a threat to fire them if they can’t make it? That’s horribly cruel.

This has to be a pretext to turn a layoff into a firing with cause, right? 7 days is absolutely ridiculous for something like this, even though they already have some (most?) of the plumbing laid via Twitter Blue.

Also, tomorrow is a non-governmental holiday in the US -- Halloween. I'd imagine quite a few employees with kids are taking time off, so this is also begging for a discrimination lawsuit -- CA law bars discrimination based on an employee's role as a caregiver of a child.

[minimaxir]

> I’m sure this has nothing to do with the MASSIVE amount of debt Twitter is now in and desperately needing money.

The irony is that even if every current Verified user paid in, it'd still not do much for Twitter's debt.

[MBCook]

I have really enjoyed Twitter. But based on some basic numbers I’ve seen, it wouldn’t surprise me if nothing Elon might do can save Twitter. It just seems doomed in the next few years purely from debt.

He may slow it down a bit. He could easily accelerate it. Companies that far in debt just don’t survive.

[ytpete]

He seems almost certain to accelerate it - Twitter is estimated to now owe over $1 billion per year in debt service payments due to the leveraged buyout: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-10-12/musk-s-tw.... If true they'll almost immediately be in a severe struggle to not fall into default.

[dragonwriter]

> Verification isn’t/wasn’t (supposed to be) about how often you used the platform.

It wasn’t, but it is now.

> Also? Who comes up with a feature and gives the programmers a very short deadline with a threat to fire them if they can’t make it?

Someone who wants to do layoffs, but characterize them as firings for failure to meet performance expectations.

[imron]

> official policy change

Can you point me to the official policy?

Because last I checked, official policy wasn’t determined by media outlets quoting anonymous sources with knowledge of the situation, who may or may not have their own axes to grind.