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Dick Trauma
Nov 30, 2007

God damn it, you've got to be kind.
https://twitter.com/AtienzaElias/status/1649121377088323585?s=20

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Doctor Teeth
Sep 12, 2008


i always lol when i see cristiano ronaldo's twitter bio

Dick Trauma
Nov 30, 2007

God damn it, you've got to be kind.
https://twitter.com/jsrailton/status/1649146273121857554?s=20

https://twitter.com/jsrailton/status/1649146442362023943?s=20

https://twitter.com/jsrailton/status/1649147017912807443?s=20

EDIT:

It also appears that Musk is giving "paid" checkmarks to famous people who made negative comments about him and his verification nonsense.

https://twitter.com/StephenKing/status/1649147510525423626?s=20

Republicans
Oct 14, 2003

- More money for us

- Fuck you


Dick Trauma posted:

It also appears that Musk is giving "paid" checkmarks to famous people who made negative comments about him and his verification nonsense.

https://twitter.com/StephenKing/status/1649147510525423626?s=20

Pretty funny bit which is how you know Elon didn't come up with it.

FlamingLiberal
Jan 18, 2009

Would you like to play a game?



I saw some discussion that they may have just hidden the blue checks, because allegedly I've seen reporting that there is no 'delete all blue checks' button and they have to go in and remove each one at a time.

Kaboobi
Jan 5, 2005

SHAKE IT BABY!
SALT THAT LADY!

Incredibly pathetic, even by elon's standards

https://twitter.com/alexeheath/status/1649162080786993153
https://twitter.com/alexeheath/status/1649174008980701186

Can't wait to see which of these people tell him to gently caress off!

Dick Trauma
Nov 30, 2007

God damn it, you've got to be kind.
https://twitter.com/OscarTheGrouch/status/1649184451987996672?s=20

FlamingLiberal
Jan 18, 2009

Would you like to play a game?



It's cool and good that we now can't even tell what government accounts are official anymore

https://twitter.com/jordan_stratton/status/1649165986912964608?s=20

MonsterEnvy
Feb 4, 2012

Shocked I tell you
So Musk is paying for some famous people to try and trick people into subbing.

haveblue
Aug 15, 2005



Toilet Rascal
He’s not even paying, he’s just not charging them

Prism
Dec 22, 2007

yospos

MonsterEnvy posted:

So Musk is paying for some famous people to try and trick people into subbing.

Also, Grimes.

Absurd Alhazred
Mar 27, 2010

by Athanatos
This is a long, embarrassing thread where Cory Doctorow, big critic of social media companies, defends having paid for Twitter Blue.
https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1649170807023886336
But notice what's absent from his profile.

Only registered members can see post attachments!

Tuxedo Gin
May 21, 2003

Classy.

haveblue posted:

He’s not even paying, he’s just not charging them

Yeah, but he SAYS he's paying for them.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1649173502572765185

Name Change
Oct 9, 2005



As we've learned over the last few years, he says a lot of things, does little

Tuxedo Gin
May 21, 2003

Classy.

Of course he's not paying. But it is hilariously pathetic that he insists that he is personally paying for certain celebrities out of his own pocket out of charity.

hadji murad
Apr 18, 2006
What I’ve learned is that Steven King will put up with anything.

BlueBlazer
Apr 1, 2010

Elon is speed running a 1998 gamer clan forum admin.

Just giving away free mod statuses to the people he wants to be his buds.

It's really pathetic and he needs to be shoved into a locker.

Rocko Bonaparte
Mar 12, 2002

Every day is Friday!

BlueBlazer posted:

Elon is speed running a 1998 gamer clan forum admin.

Would have preferred the 2023 version that posts a bunch of top secret poo poo and then gets perpwalked in shackles.

Dick Trauma
Nov 30, 2007

God damn it, you've got to be kind.
https://twitter.com/MattBinder/status/1649248278792359944?s=20

https://twitter.com/MattBinder/status/1649268283760160770?s=20

https://twitter.com/RobertMackey/status/1649262277353439233?s=20

https://twitter.com/RobertMackey/status/1649262522367905793?s=20

Dick Trauma fucked around with this message at 09:26 on Apr 21, 2023

Szmitten
Apr 26, 2008
I'm disappointed there aren't already a billion bootleg Elon or Twitter support accounts to manifest the fuckup home.

FlamingLiberal
Jan 18, 2009

Would you like to play a game?



Someone estimated that as of today, Twitter gained about 28 new Twitter Blue subscribers from people who used to have blue checks

Shrecknet
Jan 2, 2005


FlamingLiberal posted:

Someone estimated that as of today, Twitter gained about 28 new Twitter Blue subscribers from people who used to have blue checks

per 100 users, right?

oh

oh no :ohdear:

FlamingLiberal
Jan 18, 2009

Would you like to play a game?



And also I don’t know if that 28 includes the 3 that Musk has admitted paying for

Dick Trauma
Nov 30, 2007

God damn it, you've got to be kind.
:yikes:

https://twitter.com/JoshuaPHilll/status/1649505201663950850?s=20

Cabbit
Jul 19, 2001

Is that everything you have?


Stop eating so much crap fast food and you won't poo poo so much

PhazonLink
Jul 17, 2010
oh yeah what about 50$/day for weed?



Also Id.me, is a free service?

OgNar
Oct 26, 2002

They tapdance not, neither do they fart
Elon raking it in now.
https://twitter.com/oneunderscore__/status/1649563297690140673

Clarste
Apr 15, 2013

Just how many mistakes have you suffered on the way here?

An uncountable number, to be sure.
It's consistently hilarious seeing Musk try to play the "I bet you need me more than I need you!" card and being humiliated, over and over again.

Young Freud
Nov 26, 2006


Who wants to bet that 28-30 new accounts he gained are the ones he gifted to celebs who announced their refusal to pay for a check?

Mooseontheloose
May 13, 2003

Clarste posted:

It's consistently hilarious seeing Musk try to play the "I bet you need me more than I need you!" card and being humiliated, over and over again.

hey now maybe he has a humiliation kink.

Teratrain
Aug 23, 2007
Waiting for Godot
It's just a very satisfying misread to watch play out; the world's most divorced man spends months openly whittling down the public perception of the flawed but ultimately meaningful verification system, then gets approximately a thousandth of the original userbase to re-adopt because he's gone to such lengths openly polarizing the product.

Twitter's big appeal for the general populace was always an effectively level playing field to communicate with big name celebs, so the owner openly alienating that crowd makes me laugh because it's probably the worst thing you could do for the site's long-term relevance.

Nervous
Jan 25, 2005

Why, hello, my little slice of pecan pie.
I support Musk in his Twitter endeavors. He's doing a fantastic job putting it on a downward spiral and I hope he continues to do so.

Hasturtium
May 19, 2020

And that year, for his birthday, he got six pink ping pong balls in a little pink backpack.

Nervous posted:

I support Musk in his Twitter endeavors. He's doing a fantastic job putting it on a downward spiral and I hope he continues to do so.

I hope it leads to further delegitimization of social media at large, and of every crackpot executive who tries to follow in his footsteps.

Spicy take, I know.

OgNar
Oct 26, 2002

They tapdance not, neither do they fart
https://twitter.com/wapplehouse/status/1649771796239986691

Young Freud
Nov 26, 2006

They got dril
https://twitter.com/dril/status/1649879817662382080?t=_icKgteQE-D6x-PPtIfMHA&s=19

He's been changing his name every so often, which gets rid of the checkmark, but it keeps getting added.

LegionAreI
Nov 14, 2006
Lurk
It is the most petty poo poo in the world to give it to someone who doesn't want it and is advocating against it.

PhazonLink
Jul 17, 2010

I thought this was a joke, there's different types of checkmarks?

Also a 1 000 $ transaction sounds like its high enough the banks and the 4 big transaction processor dont like it if there's a bunch of disputes and issues.

Professor Beetus
Apr 12, 2007

They can fight us
But they'll never Beetus
Yeah, no poo poo. Welcome to charge back city.

FlamingLiberal
Jan 18, 2009

Would you like to play a game?



Holy poo poo

https://twitter.com/dril/status/1649897621421703169?s=20

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Absurd Alhazred
Mar 27, 2010

by Athanatos
He's just trying to get suspended, eh? :allears:

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