Elon Musk Says Twitter Is Launching A New Color-Coded Verification Scheme Next Week -- Here's What We

[highplainsdem]

Source: Forbes

Elon Musk Says Twitter Is Launching A New Color-Coded Verification Scheme Next Week — Here’s What We Know So Far

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Gold ticks will be given to verified company accounts and gray ticks will be handed to “government” accounts.

Blue checks will now be given to “all” verified individuals, celebrity or not, Musk said, explaining that the boundary of what constitutes notable is “otherwise too subjective.”

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Musk described the implementation of manual verification as a “painful, but necessary” step to tackle impersonation. Given the mass firing and exodus of staffers since Musk took the reins in October, this process is likely to add considerable strain to Twitter’s already pressured workforce.

Replying to questions on Twitter asking whether the check marks will actually help users differentiate between similar accounts, Musk acknowledged the possibility the scheme will not go to plan and vowed to act accordingly. Deliberate impersonation or deception will result in account suspension, he said, adding that users could use organizational affiliation, biography and follower counts to help distinguish between accounts with the same name. Musk said Twitter could show follower counts under people’s names on tweets and allow filtering based on follower amount “if it actually becomes a problem.”

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Read more: https://www.forbes.com/sites/roberthart/2022/11/25/elon-musk-says-twitter-is-launching-a-new-color-coded-verification-scheme-next-week---heres-what-we-know-so-far/

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This is of course still going to create chaos.

And given the symbolism attached to the colors gold and gray, it's interesting that businessman Musk is giving gold to businesses and gray to government.


Tweet where I found this:

Link to tweet

[dalton99a]

2. The most important innovation ever in Twitter's history

Mankind owes Him a debt of gratitude for this pioneering work


NEXT: For an extra $99.99/month, you can choose a custom color

[highplainsdem]

4. A lot of his followers seem to think we owe him a debt of gratitude for everything

he does.

And I'm starting to see a lot of the "he sacrificed a life of luxury to help us" crap I used to see about Trump from his followers.

Hell, the Daily Caller even tweeted an article about how much less Musk is worth now, which of course is do to his crazy behavior and incompetence, as something he sacrificed for a noble cause.

[dalton99a]

5. Yep, all the sacrifices he made for us

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Nice performance

[Ford_Prefect]

18. Another Musk lie. No one with that ego would go do without and sleep on the floor.

[ShazzieB]

39. Besides that...

Factory floor? Factory? What factory?

[NotHardly]

27. I'm having flashbacks to the Color Coded Alerts after 911 ... orange, red,and whatever.

[fleabiscuit]

37. I would bet money he wants everything White. nt

[Salviati]

3. The tell is that blue is still going to be the one you pay for.

selling out all of the credibility built up over the years to make a buck.

[Mike Nelson]

6. Hmm...

... probably an attempt to get users signing up for monthly auto-deductions from their bank accounts.

[LudwigPastorius]

7. Elon's color code...Let me guess:

[iluvtennis]

12. Good one! n/t

[reACTIONary]

14. +10 nt

[NullTuples]

28. Not to mention that other color scheme he'd and his fans really, really want to use...

Red – social democrats, liberals, socialists, communists, anarchists, trade unionists, Freemasons

Green – convicts and criminals

Blue – foreign forced laborers and emigrants

Purple – Jehovah's Witnesses

Pink – LGBTQ

Black – asocial and work-shy; mentally ill & disabled, other disabled people, autistics, vagrants and beggars, pacifists and conscription resisters, sex workers, lesbians.

Brown – Roma

Yellow - Jews

(For those who are unaware, that's the color scheme for the triangles affixed to people's clothing when they were put into German concentration camps during WWII. Elon Musk has a habit of promoting far right wing people, groups and ideals, including overt promotion of Nazism. For those who have doubts or think that's hyperbole: https://securityboulevard.com/2022/11/tesla-ceo-promotes-nazism-while-trying-to-undercut-german-government/ )

[bucolic_frolic]

8. Hey, a color scheme, that's really WOKE for simpletons

[TimeToGo]

9. He needs to hire a CEO

And then fade out.

He's a disaster.

[2naSalit]

10. Oh boy.

[rsdsharp]

11. "Musk is giving gold to businesses and gray to government."

It reminds me of a radio station I worked at. The owner talked about “Eagles” and “Buzzards.” The eagles were the sales staff, and the air/programming staff were the buzzards.

There is always tension between the two; sales tells air that they wouldn’t get paid without sales. Air tells sales the wouldn’t have anything to sell without air. But that was ridiculous

[TheBlackAdder]

13. I knew he was going to do a color-coded scheme There will be different price tiers.

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Celebs will eventually get their own color as they are the ones who drive most of the traffic.

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[NullTuples]

15. My guess is he'll end up requiring all accounts to be ID-verified as Facebook does*.

Once he does, that decade-plus of data he bought will become more valuable by orders of magnitude.

*on FB some old accounts were grandfathered in despite not being verified.

[LymphocyteLover]

21. I've never heard of anyone being ID-verified on FB

unless maybe there is a problem with your account

[Ms. Toad]

38. You've got it backwards about Facebook

ID verification is the exception, not the rule.

[Martin68]

16. So Musk thinks he can tell the difference between a "government" account and the account of

a troll being paid by a government to spread propaganda and misinformation formation? He is stupidly naive.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

17. He can keep his ticks to himself

[Ford_Prefect]

19. This could present problems for some of the people who are color blind, no?

[LymphocyteLover]

22. well of course he fired all the people who work on accessibility for disabled folks

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[ShazzieB]

40. You mean fired, not hired, right?

[LymphocyteLover]

42. Oops, yes, sorry!

fixed

[NullTuples]

20. In a very Trump move he's also refusing to pay vendors' bills.

https://www.thenationalnews.com/business/technology/2022/11/24/elon-musk-refusing-to-pay-twitter-travel-expenses-report-says/?outputType=amp

"He is now refusing to pay travel vendors for the bills, which he said were authorised by the company's former management and not him, and his staff are subsequently avoiding calls from the vendors.

Twitter employees have been instructed to renegotiate technology service deals with the companies such as Amazon and Oracle, while corporate credit cards have been shut off, the report said.

Employee benefits [previously part of their compensation] that have been trimmed include subsidised gym passes, phone and internet bills and childcare stipends."

[Ford_Prefect]

26. Now that's the move a plus-one genius who knows how to negotiate would make.

It is clear he's got a first class understanding of contracts and billing.

The litigation will last for years after the default and foreclosure. They'll have to send Big Luca to get anything out of Eloon.

I can see he'll go far.

[Solly Mack]

23. lololol

[paleotn]

24. Whatever, man-child

[somaticexperiencing]

25. Fascist motherfucker

[Stuart G]

29. "A Stupid Fascist motherfucker"

....If advertisers leave, & important employees, leave who is left? Donald Trump?

Musk hasn't got a clue...according to Stu...

[somaticexperiencing]

32. agreed. especially for an allegedly smart man who has made a lot of money, he has more than

his fair share of stoopid. moran.

socially maladapted misfit like the rest of their clan.

[Achilles Skye]

30. Woo... he's really showing the libs

by being able to retain enough employees to change the color of an icon.

[Random Boomer]

34. The real test will be deployment

A sure-fire way to break any site is to push new code. The trick is recovering. Rollbacks don't always fix what you broke.

[Kennah]

31. Stand Down

[CaptainTruth]

33. The article gets some basic facts wrong.

For example:

"The ubiquitous blue check mark currently used for all verified accounts will be replaced with a system of blue, gold and gray ticks, Musk said."

No, the blue check mark is NOT currently used for all verified accounts, it's given to everyone willing pay $8 a month, verified or not. It used to only be given to verified accounts until Eloon changed it about 2 weeks ago. Now he seems to changing it back & a bunch of people who paid $8 & got a blue check for a couple weeks will have it taken away unless they get verified.

When it comes to running a social media company, Eloon is an idiot.

[Ford_Prefect]

41. " My voice is my passport. Verify me."

I can see that's gonna work out really, really well. Who's verifying the verifiers?

[Javaman]

35. The flailing of an inept "leader" nt

[live love laugh]

36. So basically it's to diminish influencers' influence.