X -Where Twitter goes to die.

[poplove]

Mike Masnick
@mmasnick
I see the "verification" system is going juuuuuuuuuuuust great.

[raison de arizona]

That’s hilarious. I see Twitter’s descent is continuing on schedule.

People are arguing whether it is real. It isn’t. It’s just anybody can buy a blue check now.

[Kendra]

hear-by?

Isn't that hereby?

[Foggy]

Rudy said something rude about Sarah.

This is fun.

[bob]

Eight-dollar fake Rudy said something rude about Sarah.

And eight dollars well spent.

[raison de arizona]

And the dark side.

[Foggy]

Oh no, that particularly rude Rudy is VERIFIED with a blue checkmark, they're not allowed to lie to me!

That's GOTTA BE the real(ly) rude Rudy!

[RTH10260]

Open for trolling? Didn't one of our esteemed members say they had their account terminated cause they called out some bimbo? Now is the time to create another account, with or without $8 and do some namecalling

(or was that the doGs of the Facebook?)

[busterbunker]

Elon Musk has no idea what he’s doing with Twitter
https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/elo ... atest-News

[Tiredretiredlawyer]

JJ McNabb moved to Counter Social on November 1.

I'm out. Musk's anti-woke social experiment is both naïve and dangerous. Twitter is just a platform. We the participants make it work and we can leave at any time.

My new home will be on #CounterSocial (aka CoSo.) The cats and I hope to see you there.
counter.social/@jjmacnab

[raison de arizona]

I've been on counter.social, it's pretty sparse still, but I'm hoping it will pick up.

[raison de arizona]

Blue check madness.

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[Foggy]

The 21st century is too much.

[somerset]

At some point, you have to wonder if he intends to just kamikaze the damn thing into the ground just so he can build something fresh in the new market which arises after Twitter has died.

I've wondered this as well. In a way, it makes sense.

Why would the Saudi government invest money in a "free speech" platform, and especially one that's the tool of choice for journalists? The last thing they want is a free press. But if you turn that question upside down, it becomes how much is the Saudi government willing to spend to kill off the tool of choice for journalists? A few $10s of billions probably isn't such big deal for them. Let someone like Musk run Twitter into the ground and kill it off as a tool to spread information.

I'm not sure that there will be a replacement. Maybe there will be, but if so I expect it would be one that governments have a much tighter control over (i.e., blocked just about everywhere except the US).

[Kriselda Gray]

I'm on Counter.Social, @Kriselda. The display name is EarthboundValkyrie.

[Ben-Prime]

I'm considering Mastodon, but I've been too busy this week to research and choose. I'll use the 3 day weekend with no gaming obligations to do so, I think.

[FiveAcres]

Mastadon:

I am @FiveAcres@mas.to

mas.to seems to be a good server and mostly keeping up with tsunami of new users.

[Tiredretiredlawyer]

Counter.Social @MarciaBarnes13.

[John Thomas8]

In an insignificant but entertaining side show of this Twitter mess, sportsballers and sportsballer media members are getting their nic hijacked and intensely stupid tweets are being made in their names.

Musk is an actual idiot.

[humblescribe]

In an insignificant but entertaining side show of this Twitter mess, sportsballers and sportsballer media members are getting their nic hijacked and intensely stupid tweets are being made in their names.

Musk is an actual ox.

FIFY

[much ado]

For what it's worth (not much), I terminated my Twitter account. I don't think I ever made a Tweet.

[John Thomas8]

For what it's worth (not much), I terminated my Twitter account. I don't think I ever made a Tweet.

I did an @ at a local sportsball host, once.

[Kriselda Gray]

I'm also on Mastadon @kriselda@mas.to display name Kriselda
I changed servers. I'm now at @kriselda@pagan.plus. (I reposted this new part later I the thread for anyone who'd already seen this one. Sorry for the mess!)

[raison de arizona]

Twitter’s content moderation head quits as departures alarm the FTC
Yoel Roth had become the public face of Twitter’s efforts to reassure users and advertisers the service would not become a ‘free-for-all’

SAN FRANCISCO — Several top executives resigned from Twitter on Thursday, some of whom cited fears over the risks from Elon Musk’s leadership in a stunning exodus that prompted federal regulators to warn they might step in.

One of the most surprising was the company’s head of moderation and safety, Yoel Roth, who had become the public face of the company’s efforts to reassure users and advertisers that Twitter would not descend into a “free-for-all.” On Wednesday, he appeared on a Twitter Spaces public meeting to defend the company to advertisers alongside Musk.

Roth’s was one of a number of resignations including Chief Information Security Officer Lea Kissner, the company’s chief privacy officer and its chief compliance officer, according to people familiar with the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive internal matters. Several other members of the site’s privacy and security unit also had resigned and those remaining were trying to stop a wave of abuse in the company’s expanded paid service, Twitter Blue, according to those people.

The privacy departures prompted a rare warning from the Federal Trade Commission, which has emerged as the government’s top Silicon Valley watchdog. It marked the second time in two days that a federal official has expressed concern about the chaotic developments at the company, coming less than 24 hours after President Biden said Musk’s relationships with other countries deserved scrutiny.

The agency said that it was “tracking the developments at Twitter with deep concern” and that it was prepared to take action to ensure the company was complying with a settlement known as a consent order, which requires Twitter to comply with certain privacy and security requirements because of allegations of past data misuse. Three of the resignations Thursday were by members of a data governance committee established in the FTC deal, according to a former employee who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal matters.

https://apple.news/Af-MibnPWRV6INWRqhaxZjQ
Apple link, but it is WaPo.

[John Thomas8]

Well, when "LeBron James" says he wants a trade (hes doesn't) and "Adam Schefter" (ESPN reporter) is mis-reporting sports "news" (Schefty is pretty accurate), you get an idea that whatever checks that had been in place have been completely removed and the stupid is going to go nuclear.