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1 hour ago, aristocrat said:

 

Imagine rooting against for the Russians in the space race.  Not a good look comrade. We see your true colors

 

LMAO - jfc - lmao - Russia has no money for a space race. Canda has a more robust economy than Russia.  

 

And who the F are you kidding - Musk is a PUTIN puppet.

 

 

 

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How original. A topic stated by BS with the first 8 posts by BS.  With a recyclesd title. You're about as original and funny as Jimmy Kimmel. More pollution on PPP.What's next? Juggies on trampolines?

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What a joke.  Dems cry like little ***** when they no longer control the media.  What a mess.  

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More likely dismantling and selling off the furniture and fixtures of the country club-like workplace environment where the majority of the workforce coming into the office did nothing all day other t

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25 minutes ago, BillStime said:

 

LMAO - jfc - lmao - Russia has no money for a space race. Canda has a more robust economy than Russia.  

 

And who the F are you kidding - Musk is a PUTIN puppet.

 

 

 


the space race in the 60s you dumbass 

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1 hour ago, BillStime said:

 

I don't give a !@#$ about Hunter Biden.

 

If he did something wrong - INDICT HIM. If Biden did something wrong - INDICT him.

 

Freaks try so hard.

 

 

 

 

you're the guy hating one of the most influential men of our time. who's trying hard?

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I think what the blue check thing boils down to is a certain group of lonely online folks were upset at the realization they are nothing special and decided that verification was some kind of special class instead of what it’s intention was - to ensure something was actually what it was supposed to be. 
 

Now it’s a digital “kick me” sign. 

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3 hours ago, aristocrat said:


911 id like to report a dead body 

 

Irony.  Stephen King killed by his own writing...

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22 minutes ago, Roundybout said:

My priors are confirmed that blue check people are incredibly lonely. 

 

 

she's one of those daytrading room subscription scammers. all the people trying day trading lost their cash so what does she expect? 

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Tweets Become Harder to Believe as Labels Change Meaning

 

In the 24 hours after Twitter last week eliminated the blue check mark that historically served as a means of identifying public agencies, at least 11 new accounts began impersonating the Los Angeles Police Department.

 

More than 20 purported to be various agencies of the federal government. Someone pretending to be the mayor of New York City promised to create a Department of Traffic and Parking Enforcement and slash police funding by 70 percent.

 

Mr. Musk’s decision to stop giving check marks to people and groups verified to be who they said were, and instead offering them to anyone who paid for one, is the latest tumult at Twitter, the social media giant he has vowed to remake since he acquired it last year for $44 billion.

 

The changes have convulsed a platform that once seemed indispensable for following news as it broke around the world. The information on Twitter is now increasingly unreliable. Accounts that impersonate public officials, government agencies and celebrities have proliferated. So have propaganda and disinformation that threaten to further erode trust in public institutions. The consequences are only beginning to emerge.


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In Sudan, new accounts on Twitter are falsely representing both sides of the civil war that has erupted there. One account that, presumably, bought a blue check mark falsely proclaimed the death of Lt. Gen. Mohamed Hamdan, the leader of the rebel Rapid Support Forces. More than 1.7 million people viewed the tweet.

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The main account of the Los Angeles Police Department has a gray check mark, which Twitter created for “legacy accounts,” but not all of its various bureaus do — the Hollywood division, for example. In addition to providing blue check marks for $8 a month, Twitter has invited organizations to pay $1,000 to receive gold marks for multiple accounts. For a time, at least, one was extended to a Disney Junior impostor account that tweeted racist and vulgar language.

 

“This is going to be chaos for emergency services,” tweeted Marc-André Argentino, a research fellow at the London-based International Center for the Study of Radicalization.

Mr. Argentino tracked examples showing an account impersonating the mayor of Chicago replying to one impersonating the city’s Department of Transportation. Another had New York City’s actual government-run account arguing with an impostor.

 

“Yes this is funny, let us all laugh,” Mr. Argentino wrote. “Now take two seconds and go back to any mass casualty incident in a major city, or a natural disaster, or any crisis/critical incident when people turn to official sources of information in times need & think of the harm that this can cause.”

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1 hour ago, ChiGoose said:

Tweets Become Harder to Believe as Labels Change Meaning

 

In the 24 hours after Twitter last week eliminated the blue check mark that historically served as a means of identifying public agencies, at least 11 new accounts began impersonating the Los Angeles Police Department.

 

More than 20 purported to be various agencies of the federal government. Someone pretending to be the mayor of New York City promised to create a Department of Traffic and Parking Enforcement and slash police funding by 70 percent.

 

Mr. Musk’s decision to stop giving check marks to people and groups verified to be who they said were, and instead offering them to anyone who paid for one, is the latest tumult at Twitter, the social media giant he has vowed to remake since he acquired it last year for $44 billion.

 

The changes have convulsed a platform that once seemed indispensable for following news as it broke around the world. The information on Twitter is now increasingly unreliable. Accounts that impersonate public officials, government agencies and celebrities have proliferated. So have propaganda and disinformation that threaten to further erode trust in public institutions. The consequences are only beginning to emerge.


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In Sudan, new accounts on Twitter are falsely representing both sides of the civil war that has erupted there. One account that, presumably, bought a blue check mark falsely proclaimed the death of Lt. Gen. Mohamed Hamdan, the leader of the rebel Rapid Support Forces. More than 1.7 million people viewed the tweet.

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The main account of the Los Angeles Police Department has a gray check mark, which Twitter created for “legacy accounts,” but not all of its various bureaus do — the Hollywood division, for example. In addition to providing blue check marks for $8 a month, Twitter has invited organizations to pay $1,000 to receive gold marks for multiple accounts. For a time, at least, one was extended to a Disney Junior impostor account that tweeted racist and vulgar language.

 

“This is going to be chaos for emergency services,” tweeted Marc-André Argentino, a research fellow at the London-based International Center for the Study of Radicalization.

Mr. Argentino tracked examples showing an account impersonating the mayor of Chicago replying to one impersonating the city’s Department of Transportation. Another had New York City’s actual government-run account arguing with an impostor.

 

“Yes this is funny, let us all laugh,” Mr. Argentino wrote. “Now take two seconds and go back to any mass casualty incident in a major city, or a natural disaster, or any crisis/critical incident when people turn to official sources of information in times need & think of the harm that this can cause.”


Elon destroyed the credibility and value of Twitter.

 

It’s a private company and he can do what he wants…

 

But don’t be surprised when Twitter is replaced - because it will. 

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Amazing that Elon made Twitter better, more credible and less of a cash loser, despite cutting 3/4 of its workforce.

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8 minutes ago, Doc said:

Amazing that Elon made Twitter better, more credible and less of a cash loser, despite cutting 3/4 of its workforce.


Twitter revenue, earnings reportedly fell 40% shortly after Musk buyout

 

Twitter's revenue and adjusted earnings reportedly fell about 40 percent year over year in December 2022 amid an advertiser exodus following Elon Musk's takeover.

 

Twitter ad revenue to plummet 28% in 2023: forecast

 

Twitter's income from advertising will fall by 28 percent in 2023, a closely watched forecast said Tuesday, as the platform struggles under the ownership of Elon Musk.
 

Analysts at Insider Intelligence said they were slashing an earlier worldwide revenue estimate of $4.74 billion by more than a third to $2.98 billion as trust in the platform deteriorates.

 

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