The verified brand situation is getting out of control. Quick thread of twitter blue brands, and brands who might be pissed off at Elon right about now. https://t.co/bZ9PSqZKtf
Twitter just has too many things that other mediums don’t. You don’t have to show your face or produce images all the time. You can lurk and still keep up with current conversation, news, and communities. You get in the moment updates to world events. And instant reactions/jokes.
as of today at 5:30pm est. i will be relieving Mr. Musk of all duties and taking position as ceo of Twitter HQ. only users who agree that i am cute, fun, and petite will be allowed to keep their accounts. effective immediately.
3/ The FCC just announced they are investigating. They have power to fine Twitter billions.
Add this to historical pattern of @elonmusk endangering the public by unleashing a half-baked autopilot on public streets without basic technology, and one concludes he feels invincible.
The entire premise of the tech industry is dudes who think they can Do Better™️ with their revolutionary techniques of ignoring all field experts, causing a huge mess, and then proceeding to make a slight variation of what already existed in the first place
@TimKennedyMMA Maybe Gen Z isn’t scared of a boogie man that’s been leveraged to drive the fear vote since the 1800s? A lot of folks are using “Marxist Socialist communist,” etc with little weight behind that.
I only ask that people don't blame a designer for this.
This label was (well) designed by my team a while back to show specific information about why someone was verified, and it has been botched to become the "official" label. Icon was different and copy was specific. https://t.co/QCwpyhJttj
The role of young people in this election cannot be understated. Turnout delivered on many of these races.
By 2024, Millennials & Gen Z voters will outnumber voters who are Baby Boomers and older, 45/25.
We are beginning to see the political impacts of that generational shift. https://t.co/5U7AcMIgJi
My name is Nabeela Syed. I’m a 23-year old Muslim, Indian-American woman. We just flipped a Republican-held suburban district.
And in January, I’ll be the youngest member of the Illinois General Assembly.
the first checkmark, blue, indicates you’ve paid for it while the second, official, is verification. the third checkmark, kibeth, is a difficult and contrary one that can make others go where you wish while the fourth, dyrim, is a musical checkmark that allows or prevents speech
@esthercrawford @TwitterBlue So you’re taking the blue checkmark, which used to mean one thing, and now you’re making it mean a completely different thing, and you’re adding a new tag that means what the blue checkmark used to mean?
Do I have that right?
The conditioning around productivity begins at a vulnerable, young age.
WE ASK: “what do you want to be when you grow up?” And the answer is always a job. Notice we don’t ask: what do you believe in, what are you passionate about, what brings you joy?
Apps should not trap your files, YOU should have a data pool and then choose which front end (OS, app, website) you want to use to display, edit or share it! https://t.co/5nSPxoQgzr
Everything happening on Twitter now is a lot easier to understand if you‘ve ever had a younger sibling that invented a game and added a new rule every time they started losing.
Like I always say with content moderation, every social media site owner who is “pro free speech” meets their line eventually.
For 4chan, it was anime child porn. For Facebook and YouTube, it was white nationalist terror. For Elon, it was people making fun of him. https://t.co/aNZmqYwrJu