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by AlexandrB 1315 days ago
> I actually liked the ~idea~ behind this but not the execution, which I can't believe was so bungled

How do you not bungle something you conceive, implement, and roll out to millions of users in 2 weeks (while in the middle of a massive wave of layoffs).
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radu_floricica 1315 days ago
By not missing on the core feature? The MVP for this was not taking payments and putting a sign, it was having an actual verification, no matter how basic.

I also don't understand how it got to this bondoggle. I always imagined it was going to use the payment for verification: you can get a blue mark for John Smith only if you pay with a card belonging to John Smith. That can be automated in 2 weeks, no problem. And then add more complex verification procedures for companies, brands and non-name accounts.

I'm also reserving some probability mass for "we didn't get the whole story". Something like 25% that was an already verified account or something like that.

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leereeves 1315 days ago
He's moving fast and breaking things.

Eventually I suspect things will get fixed and Twitter will probably benefit from the attention. Twitter hasn't been this interesting in years.

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giraffe_lady 1315 days ago
Is this the opinion of an active twitter user, or from outside? He's certainly making things interesting for spectators but the people who were already there using it don't seem that pleased from what I can tell.

Also idk about you but I've been in tech about a decade, seen a lot of the changes the startup era has wrought on our world and I can't hear "move fast and break things" as anything positive anymore. I wish we had gone a little slower, we broke some things I think we needed.

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oneeyedpigeon 1315 days ago
"May you live in interesting times" is a curse, not a blessing. People tune into disasters. Trolling aside, twitter has become hugely introspective over the last few weeks, which isn't particularly interesting.
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cuteboy19 1315 days ago
At the rate it's going possibly he might just shut down Twitter for a few months and then relaunch it. More excitement and less of all this
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Jcowell 1315 days ago
> Twitter hasn't been this interesting in years.

Maybe for some. Black Twitter had some great sagas.

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