[sytelus]

They should have done actual verification like many financial accounts do (you upload your ID and answer questions on your past). Musk is ex-payments professional and should have known that gaming payments to adversely attack verification was bound to happen. His assertion that lords and peasant system needs to be dismantled is absolutely correct, however. Twitter has largely turned into message distribution system for 1% and that's limiting its growth. Blue checkmarks bestowed by some opaque priesthood at Twitter is not 21st century.

[themitigating]

"Twitter has largely turned into message distribution system for 1% and that's limiting its growth. Blue checkmarks bestowed by some opaque priesthood at Twitter is not 21st century."

But at least the blue check system was mostly correct. Imagine how much a blue check would cost if it was opened to the public and the level of verification pre-elon was used .

Right now the $8 was just a code change and let's just call it 100% profit. With actual verification you'd need a bunch more people and one of those identity verification services and now that $8 isn't pure profit

[strangattractor]

They need an extra 1 billion per year. 1,000,000,000.00/($8X12 months) = 10.5 million verifications of pictures and IDs. Work force slashed in half. Questionable management decision making. Seems like the head winds are pretty strong for not being really successful or getting true verification implemented.

[kevin_thibedeau]

> His assertion that lords and peasant system needs to be dismantled is absolutely correct, however.

Not such a great system when a bunch of peasants convince themselves to believe in lies. "Everyone gets a voice to say damaging things" is the road to ruin.

[shapefrog]

> His assertion that lords and peasant system needs to be dismantled is absolutely correct, however.

But what if the entire business model was/is actually a lord and peasant system. Whereby lords can, while verified and identified as lords, communicate with the masses of pesants without any other gatekeepers.

The peasants having their chit chat on the side isnt the point, that is the noise and the lords are the signal.

[kevin_thibedeau]

The damaging stuff isn't idle chitchat. Much of it is orchestrated by people who want to manipulate the gullible to their political advantage.

[shapefrog]

If all the pesants are saying it, nobody gives a shit.

If all the blue checkmarks are saying it, people give a shit.

You cant tell the difference anymore.

[tsol]

I think that's what they used to say when the United States was founded.

[mbaum9]

It’s not Twitter’s fault when stock market bots go wild.

[rodgerd]

> Twitter has largely turned into message distribution system for 1%

The Twitter user base is massively non-Western. Within the West it skews non-White.

Your assertions are meaningless garbage and betray a complete lack of how Twitter works and who uses it, comprising merely the braying of the far-right greivance industry.