https://twitter.com/karaswisher/status/1586910428847800321

In fact, I would not pay a dime for verification. In fact, social media should pay its creators and treat them with respect , instead of unleashing knuckleheads on them. Like I said, fuck that.

Kara Swisher (@karaswisher)Mon, 31 Oct 2022 02:41 GMT

Proposed talk title: “Automation: how to fail at scale”

Lorin Hochstein (@norootcause)Sun, 30 Oct 2022 00:09 +0000

If every account followed by @verified subscribes b/c of this shakedown, that's $26M/year. Musk owes $1B/year in interest. Not sure this is the magical solution. (And the risk of chasing verified users off the platform and confusing everyone seems.... not worth $26M/year.)

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Sources: Twitter is strongly considering making verified users subscribe to Twitter Blue at $4.99 a month or lose their badges (@caseynewton / Platformer) platformer.news/p/elons-first-… techmeme.com/221030/p13#a22…

Techmeme (@Techmeme)Sun, 30 Oct 2022 21:06 GMT

Brendan Nyhan (@BrendanNyhan)Mon, 31 Oct 2022 00:08 GMT

Thread. One of the things that struck me about the Black Swan book that was popular a dozen or so years ago was the notion that it is impossible to tell the difference between a very smart person and one that has been extraordinarily lucky _so far_

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https://twitter.com/jason_a_w/status/1586750404649709568

in conclusion he has been lucky his entire life and he is going to need that to hold up, i think.

jason wilson (@jason_a_w)Sun, 30 Oct 2022 16:04 GMT

genecluck (@genehack)Mon, 31 Oct 2022 06:40 GMT

https://twitter.com/JoshuaPHilll/status/1586518219875299328

Fundamentally the rich will never solve the problems they profit from, or the systems they profit from. They have no incentive to do so and every incentive not to do so.

Read Jackson Rising by @CooperationJXN (@JoshuaPHilll)Sun, 30 Oct 2022 00:56 +0000

https://twitter.com/JoshuaPHilll/status/1586522502179717125

Obviously there are some occasional big donors who give away a lot of money. But they almost never give it in ways that will bring us closer to actual systemic change. They just aren’t the answer and never will be.

Read Jackson Rising by @CooperationJXN (@JoshuaPHilll)Sun, 30 Oct 2022 01:15 GMT

This should really mark the end of the “benevolent billionaire” myth. Not only did Musk pay $44 billion for Twitter when he could’ve ended starvation globally with that money, he also has already literally backed out of a $6 billion promise to the UN to help solve world hunger.

Read Jackson Rising by @CooperationJXN (@JoshuaPHilll)Sun, 30 Oct 2022 00:39 +0000

You will never figure out where this video is going even into the end of it

Curtis Remarc 🌴🤙 (@CurtisRemarc)Sun, 30 Oct 2022 23:16 GMT

https://twitter.com/CLIFFATHIGHNOON/status/1586926566583734272

big beautiful water-pool

GLADIO stay-behind poster (@gorgeous_sorel)Mon, 31 Oct 2022 03:49 GMT

https://twitter.com/CurtisRemarc/status/1586859544113647616

"and i would have gotten away with it too if i hadn't produced a series of videos on tiktok bragging about the entire plot to everyone on the internet"

Permanent Rebuild ☠️⚾️👻 (@DW_reader)Mon, 31 Oct 2022 03:08 GMT

https://twitter.com/CurtisRemarc/status/1586859544113647616

Did he... did he imply that he fucked the guy's girlfriend?

Peelon Bust (@yayedgarhoover)Mon, 31 Oct 2022 01:59 GMT

My oil painting of McDonald’s Filet-O-Fish w/Strawberry Shake & Fries

Noah Verrier (@NoahVerrier)Sat, 29 Oct 2022 13:18 +0000

https://twitter.com/abbyfuller/status/1586922723540086784

I have concerns about any software update that was thought up by a rando and had to somehow be rolled out to production a week later. Like, has anyone in this mix ever... computered? Because this isn't gonna go well; I can tell them that for free!

Bridget Kromhout (@bridgetkromhout)Mon, 31 Oct 2022 03:30 GMT

https://twitter.com/bridgetkromhout/status/1586923454200152064

lol no elon just buys companies to cover up that he cant computer

Abby Fuller (@abbyfuller)Mon, 31 Oct 2022 03:32 GMT

Bluechecks are elite users to Twitter, and a small group at that. Why would they try to earn revenue off of a small user base they don’t wanna lose?

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Some news from inside Elon’s war room: Twitter is strongly considering making verified users pay $4.99 a month to keep their badges. Many questions remain. Subscribe to read ➡️ platformer.news/p/elons-first-…

Casey Newton (@CaseyNewton)Sun, 30 Oct 2022 21:02 GMT

ashe dryden 😷 (@ashedryden)Sun, 30 Oct 2022 21:32 GMT

I’m not finna sit here all night talking about a blue icon. Now here’s what I remain sore about. The HOURS I spent skipping class in undergrad thanks to the smorgasbord of knowledge served up via RSS and Google Reader was everything. 🥹😭

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Bring back Google Reader!

roxane gay (@rgay)Mon, 31 Oct 2022 03:42 GMT

Tiffani Ashley Bell (@tiffani)Mon, 31 Oct 2022 03:57 GMT

This falls in line with my theory that Musk bought Twitter punitively because he was humiliated here by powerful influencers. So what's the first thing he does? He makes those influential users bend the knee and pay him to retain their power. If they refuse, then they lose it.

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Some news from inside Elon’s war room: Twitter is strongly considering making verified users pay $4.99 a month to keep their badges. Many questions remain. Subscribe to read ➡️ platformer.news/p/elons-first-…

Casey Newton (@CaseyNewton)Sun, 30 Oct 2022 21:02 GMT

Brandon Friedman (@BFriedmanDC)Sun, 30 Oct 2022 22:38 GMT

I don’t think Elon Musk realizes how much money he’s going to lose on Twitter at this rate.

Scott Nover (@ScottNover)Mon, 31 Oct 2022 01:34 GMT

Lol nope

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Twitter is planning to start charging $20 per month for verification theverge.com/2022/10/30/234…

The Verge (@verge)Mon, 31 Oct 2022 00:52 GMT

Scott Hanselman (@shanselman)Mon, 31 Oct 2022 03:55 GMT

https://twitter.com/bridgetkromhout/status/1586935833852084230

$5. And I constantly mute convos and tweets after sending them. My Twitter is as chill as I am.

Scott Hanselman (@shanselman)Mon, 31 Oct 2022 04:29 GMT

https://twitter.com/shanselman/status/1586929761347141637

I don’t care about “being verified”, just about having better tools to manage the noise (which it turns out isn’t all that much better until you just turn off notifications). I definitely don’t get a $20 of value per month, and it seems you concur. 😹

Bridget Kromhout (@bridgetkromhout)Mon, 31 Oct 2022 04:19 GMT

I’m getting word that Elon Musk has given Twitter devs an ultimatum: they have 30 days to bring Joseph Kony to justice. #Kony2022

Travis View (@travis_view)Mon, 31 Oct 2022 03:00 GMT

Shorter: Black President made already racist white people even more racist so they embraced full on open white supremacy when Trump offered it twitter.com/nickyfrank30/s…

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I'm a big Obama fan, but people forget that his intelligence and way of speaking made a lot of low-education, working-class white folks feel stupid and inferior and came across as smug and dismissive of them, and that's what we're paying for today. twitter.com/Acyn/status/15…

Nicky Frank (@NickyFrank30)Sun, 30 Oct 2022 00:15 +0000

Michelle_BYoung (@michelle_byoung)Sun, 30 Oct 2022 23:02 GMT

https://twitter.com/Nemtastic1/status/1586900456043053056

"Singlehandedly" is fanboy fantasy. He was far from being the only member of the PayPal mafia and was even less of a sole source of brilliance at Tesla or SpaceX.

Dr. Phil (@Duke_of_neural)Mon, 31 Oct 2022 03:15 GMT

Twitter was somewhat famous for slow product rollouts, but often because they went to the extreme to test and consider what might go wrong. It appears they're moving to the opposite extreme. Also, this management style is how you drive away any good engineer.

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https://twitter.com/verge/status/1586883874122264576

It is truly amazing that after so many years pretending to be an engineer, he still has absolutely no idea how anything works. This is not the way to make a stable platform.

Dan Sandler (@Danielsand)Mon, 31 Oct 2022 00:55 GMT

Mike Masnick (@mmasnick)Mon, 31 Oct 2022 01:26 GMT

https://twitter.com/verge/status/1586883874122264576

It is truly amazing that after so many years pretending to be an engineer, he still has absolutely no idea how anything works. This is not the way to make a stable platform.

Dan Sandler (@Danielsand)Mon, 31 Oct 2022 00:55 GMT

Oh this is good.

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https://twitter.com/tinysubversions/status/1586027417432621056

I just finished a tiny tool that searches through screen name, description, location and url field to find fediverse handles: fedifinder.glitch.me

Luca Hammer (@luca)Sat, 29 Oct 2022 22:33 +0000

anildash (@anildash)Mon, 31 Oct 2022 04:49 GMT

inside me there are two programmers: one can bang out a POC for a complex thing that couldn't have existed a year ago, and the other doesn't know how to do authentication properly

John VanEnk (@sw17ch)Sun, 30 Oct 2022 18:10 GMT

the nice thing about my ADHD is that if my apartment is haunted I will literally never notice it “silly me, always leaving these cupboards and drawers open and the sink running at full blast,” I say, as a frustrated ghost screams into a pillow in the corner

Janel Comeau (@VeryBadLlama)Sun, 30 Oct 2022 21:14 GMT

Earlier today Musk was responding to LeBron with @yoyoel's tweet. Now he's reading Yoel's Slack messages (I think) from earlier this year. It's like day 4. twitter.com/elonmusk/statu…

Jacob Silverman (@SilvermanJacob)Mon, 31 Oct 2022 01:51 GMT

https://twitter.com/SilvermanJacob/status/1586898614403698688

I mean you assume he's going to read people's messages, but actually tweeting a screenshot from a senior employee's private messages is something!

Jacob Silverman (@SilvermanJacob)Mon, 31 Oct 2022 01:56 GMT

Seeing all these people who were just recently very, very concerned with people losing their jobs due to "cancel culture" now gleefully mocking people losing their jobs makes me think that maybe they're not quite as principled as they claimed.

Mike Masnick (@mmasnick)Mon, 31 Oct 2022 05:36 GMT

https://twitter.com/reckless/status/1586884530988027904

"It's one checkmark, Michael. What could it cost, $20?"

mdazee (@mdzapp)Mon, 31 Oct 2022 01:08 GMT

🎃🔪👻💀 @KarlUrban #HappyHalloween

Jack Quaid (@JackQuaid92)Sun, 30 Oct 2022 20:57 GMT

hey did we mention that we got married?

𝖛𝖎𝖔𝖑𝖊𝖙 𝖛𝖆𝖑𝖊𝖓𝖙𝖎𝖓𝖊 🔪🦇👻 (@slutpilled)Thu, 20 Oct 2022 20:10 +0000

https://twitter.com/hankgreen/status/1586828496285769728

Gesunde Zivilgesellschaft ? (@ZivilSolidarity)Sun, 30 Oct 2022 21:15 GMT

https://twitter.com/hankgreen/status/1586828496285769728

Good morning I would like one ticket out of this reality.

Average Spooky Enjoyer (@GdoubleWB)Sun, 30 Oct 2022 21:18 GMT

Hahaha this is a bad website.

Hank Green (@hankgreen)Sun, 30 Oct 2022 21:12 GMT

https://twitter.com/cube_drone/status/1586829977622040577

"but won't hundreds or thousands of talented, capable, wealthy strangers take my code and scale it for me for free?"

cube drone (@cube_drone)Sun, 30 Oct 2022 21:19 GMT

Serious question. How do you complain to Twitter about misinformation on Twitter when Mr. Twitter is doing the misinforming? twitter.com/mollyjongfast/…

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This exchange between @HillaryClinton and @elonmusk should kill any remaining confidence advertisers had in the platform.

Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast)Sun, 30 Oct 2022 12:50 GMT

W. Kamau Bell (@wkamaubell)Sun, 30 Oct 2022 21:26 GMT

Monetizing the vanity of blue check Twitter addicts is unfortunately extremely funny twitter.com/caseynewton/st…

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Some news from inside Elon’s war room: Twitter is strongly considering making verified users pay $4.99 a month to keep their badges. Many questions remain. Subscribe to read ➡️ platformer.news/p/elons-first-…

Casey Newton (@CaseyNewton)Sun, 30 Oct 2022 21:02 GMT

Ryan Broderick (@broderick)Sun, 30 Oct 2022 21:33 GMT

wife: *from the kitchen* sweetie, where are the coffee filters? me:

Dr. Engy & Mr. Human 🎃🎃 (@English_Channel)Sat, 29 Oct 2022 13:41 +0000

Software companies aren't made of code. They're made of processes that produce and maintain code. And the foremost component of these processes are people. The code is just a by-product. More of a liability than an asset.

François Chollet (@fchollet)Sun, 30 Oct 2022 03:25 GMT

Excelente masajeador...o no?

Google Bizarro (@google_bizarro)Sat, 29 Oct 2022 21:59 +0000

Baby!!!

Cat Society (@coolcatsociety)Fri, 07 Oct 2022 16:41 +0000

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Uma fato curioso do depoimento de Carla Zambelli na delegacia hj: Ela estava sozinha. Não tinha nenhum bolsonarista ali apoiando, dando qualquer tipo de suporte. Nenhum camisa verde amarela além dela própria. Abriram mão dela muito mais rápido do que largaram o Roberto Jefferson.

Sheila de Carvalho (@she_carvalho)Sun, 30 Oct 2022 04:17 GMT

mikannn (@mikannn)Sun, 30 Oct 2022 11:07 GMT