Twitter adopts 'poison pill' to prevent Elon Musk takeover

[Hawkeye21 2,393]

Just now, fandandy said:

Stephen King threatens to quit Twitter if Musk implements the 20-dollar monthly fee.

Ohhh, dear.

You know these people can't live without the soap box.  Steven would prolly pay a thousand.

What I find funny is that can still go on posting like they always did, they just won't have the blue checkmark next to their name anymore.

[nobody 2,652]

2 hours ago, Hawkeye21 said:

Some interesting info on the possible future of Twitter.

 

Here we go with the "decentralization is the greatest thing ever" crowd.  Of course, it never explains why decentralization is so revolutionary just that it will be.

I suppose paying to tweet would be revolutionary since it would kill the platform.

[Voltaire 5,281]

19 minutes ago, Hawkeye21 said:

 

Good. The media is out there lying about how Pauli Pelosi's psycho hammer attacker is a conservative, when he's a mentally ill homeless nudist with a BLM sign and Pride flag in the bus where he lives. They'd be clamping down on anybody saying otherwise because censorship and lying while spinning fake narratives is what they do. Musk's takeover of twitter prevents them from doing so.

Sadly, the gay love interest angle likely is looking like fake news as we've read the psycho's police interview and it seems to jive mostly with Paul Pelosi's story. There's photo evidence that the back door to the house has been seriously damaged. Still, it's not just the Pelosis that refuse to show security footage, the SF police department refuses to show body cam footage as well. As I've said a few times, if the Pelosis/police don't release the video they have, people are going to believe what they want. For myself, I'm not far away from believing the Pelosi/ news media story in regards to the attack but I'm not going to give them the benefit of the doubt when I know the media is deliberately trying to mislead me about the perp's motivations.

[fandandy 3,313]

7 minutes ago, Hawkeye21 said:

What I find funny is that can still go on posting like they always did, they just won't have the blue checkmark next to their name anymore.

I hope a million people open a Twitter account with the name Stephen King.

[Mike Honcho 5,251]

10 minutes ago, fandandy said:

Stephen King threatens to quit Twitter if Musk implements the 20-dollar monthly fee.

Ohhh, dear.

You know these people can't live without the soap box.  Steven would prolly pay a thousand.

 

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Musk suggests charging $8 a month for Twitter verification after criticism for $19.99 plan

“$20 a month to keep my blue check?” he tweeted on Monday, followed by an expletive. “They should pay me. If that gets instituted, I’m gone like Enron.” Following up later in a reply, King wrote, “t ain’t the money, it’s the principle of the thing.”

Musk replied to King early Tuesday morning with his most explicit acknowledgment yet of the proposal to charge for account verification. “[W]e need to pay the bills somehow! Twitter cannot rely entirely on advertisers,” he said. “How about $8?”

 

This is gold jerry, gold!

[nobody 2,652]

8 minutes ago, fandandy said:

Stephen King threatens to quit Twitter if Musk implements the 20-dollar monthly fee.

Ohhh, dear.

You know these people can't live without the soap box.  Steven would prolly pay a thousand.

They love their check marks.  Separates them from the plebes.

[nobody 2,652]

How many people are even verified?  How is $100 a year from I'd guess 100k people(?) even matter?  So they make 1.19B in revenue instead of 1.18B. Talk about a drop in the bucket.

[Hawkeye21 2,393]

1 minute ago, nobody said:

They love their check marks.  Separates them from the plebes.

It does help when trying to find legit info and not people with spoof accounts.  Happens with sports news a lot when people pretend to be Schefter or Rapaport.

[nobody 2,652]

2 minutes ago, Hawkeye21 said:

It does help when trying to find legit info and not people with spoof accounts.  Happens with sports news a lot when people pretend to be Schefter or Rapaport.

Agreed.  I don't think this is a good move.

[craftsman 1,045]

Oh please no. Stop, don't do this. 

 They can no longer feel "safe" 

 

[nobody 2,652]

2 minutes ago, craftsman said:

Oh please no. Stop, don't do this. 

 

She doesn't even have a checkmark.

[shorepatrol 1,870]

Government subsidised blue checkmarks is now a must. Vote blue or you're a focking Nazi 

[Gepetto 1,354]

11 hours ago, Hawkeye21 said:

What I find funny is that can still go on posting like they always did, they just won't have the blue checkmark next to their name anymore.

They're obsessed with their blue checkmark the way Gollum was obsessed with the ring.

[TimHauck 2,726]

11 hours ago, nobody said:

How many people are even verified?  How is $100 a year from I'd guess 100k people(?) even matter?  So they make 1.19B in revenue instead of 1.18B. Talk about a drop in the bucket.

No clue.  But now it looks like anyone can get it for $8 a month?

 

 

[craftsman 1,045]

54 minutes ago, TimHauck said:

No clue.  But now it looks like anyone can get it for $8 a month?

 

 

Should Musk be setting up a structure that bans certain groups from having access? Like it was before against conservatives? 

[RaiderHaters Revenge 4,315]

8 minutes ago, craftsman said:

Should Musk be setting up a structure that bans certain groups from having access? Like it was before against conservatives? 

nope

thats the thing, conservative want everyone to say whatever they want

libtards want to silence those who oppose

I would rather hear their constant dribble than silence them

 

[TimHauck 2,726]

10 minutes ago, craftsman said:

Should Musk be setting up a structure that bans certain groups from having access? Like it was before against conservatives? 

Lol you clearly don’t go on twitter

[JustinCharge 2,397]

obviously, the media will suddenly highlight and report as major news anything controversial said by anyone on twitter going forward, to create the narrative that this only started when musk took over. controversial tweets from pre-musk will now be ignored.  the typical media bias of lies of omission.  weve all seen this tons of times.

[Hawkeye21 2,393]

#TrumpIsDead is trending on Twitter now.

 

[Mike Honcho 5,251]

You know if the poison pill is made up of Iocaine Powder, Musk might have built up a tolerance to it.  

[Reality 3,121]

New Twitter starting paying off.

[Sean Mooney 1,970]

12 hours ago, TimHauck said:

Lol you clearly don’t go on twitter

Seriously....I mean to pretend conservative groups and people weren't on there?

1 minute ago, Reality said:

New Twitter Saturday paying off.

See- now you love fact checks. Your bias is so transparent. 

[Reality 3,121]

1 minute ago, Sean Mooney said:

Seriously....I mean to pretend conservative groups and people weren't on there?

See- now you love fact checks. Your bias is so transparent. 

I'm sorry this happened to you.

[Sean Mooney 1,970]

4 minutes ago, Reality said:

I'm sorry this happened to you.

Twitter? I never use it. Don't care.

Just find it ironic that you are so invested in fact checks now. 

[Reality 3,121]

1 minute ago, Sean Mooney said:

Twitter? I never use it. Don't care.

Just find it ironic that you are so invested in fact checks now. 

The White House was so embarrassed they deleted their tweet. What does that have to do with me?

You're flailing here, it's sad. I'm sorry this happened to you. 

 

[Sean Mooney 1,970]

4 minutes ago, Reality said:

The White House was so embarrassed they deleted their tweet. What does that have to do with me?

You're flailing here, it's sad. I'm sorry this happened to you. 

 

All I asked was about you loving fact checks now.

Sorry you can't handle a simple statement. 

[Reality 3,121]

24 minutes ago, Sean Mooney said:

All I asked was about you loving fact checks now.

Sorry you can't handle a simple statement. 

You didn't ask anything, you made a silly statement having no idea if it applied to me or not. 

This isn't going well for you, you may want to take the next few plays off. I know this will be difficult for you since you enjoy getting the last word, no matter how dumb it is... 

I am very sorry this happened to you. 

 

[wiffleball 4,789]

Okay, I'm buying myspace.

[wiffleball 4,789]

13 hours ago, RaiderHaters Revenge said:

nope

thats the thing, conservative want everyone to say whatever they want

libtards want to silence those who oppose

I would rather hear their constant dribble than silence them

 

It's "drivel" you retard. 

[RaiderHaters Revenge 4,315]

15 minutes ago, wiffleball said:

It's "drivel" you retard. 

Tell it to voice chat

[nobody 2,652]

1 hour ago, Sean Mooney said:

Seriously....I mean to pretend conservative groups and people weren't on there?

 

The difference is that the added context note would've been removed by the Twitter moderators prior

[jerryskids 6,728]

16 hours ago, craftsman said:

Oh please no. Stop, don't do this. 

 They can no longer feel "safe" 

 

I for one think it's noble of her to deprive her constituents of information because some people may type some things with which she disagrees.   

[TimHauck 2,726]

1 hour ago, nobody said:

The difference is that the added context note would've been removed by the Twitter moderators prior

He was replying to me replying to Utilit claiming that “conservatives were banned from having access”

[TimHauck 2,726]

 

 

[Mike Honcho 5,251]

7 minutes ago, TimHauck said:

 

 

Or in his case what you OVERPAY for

[Reality 3,121]

[Hawkeye21 2,393]

24 minutes ago, Reality said:

He's having a blast with this.

[Reality 3,121]

Should hang it in The Louvre.

[Hawkeye21 2,393]

 

[Reality 3,121]

Just now, Hawkeye21 said:

 

Oh, that's too good.

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