Twitter

[Spider]

I see Musk is shaking things up.

You can have a blue tick for $8 a month (or £8 in English money).

Cant decide if he’s just bored, taking the piss or trying to destroy it.

But the blue tick is a weird one. He’s trying to stop folk impersonating the famous, whilst simultaneously allowing everyone to do just that.

it’ll be funny watching it all unfold.

[globaldiver]

16 minutes ago, Spider said:

I see Musk is shaking things up.

You can have a blue tick for $8 a month (or £8 in English money).

Cant decide if he’s just bored, taking the piss or trying to destroy it.

But the blue tick is a weird one. He’s trying to stop folk impersonating the famous, whilst simultaneously allowing everyone to do just that.

it’ll be funny watching it all unfold.

Probably taking the piss. That said, I’m sure he’ll want to see a return on his outlay.

[L/H White]

He's inviting the likes of Trump, Robinson & Hopkins back and a host of other people I've never heard of

[Tonge moor green jacket]

It's a cess pit anyway. A few more returning nob-heads won't change that for the better or worse.

Occasionally some reasonable things appear, but even then they're automatically attacked by other nob-heads.

[Cheese]

It's not even a blue tick. It's a white tick.

[Ani]

Musk is a really weird bloke. 
 

If it turned out he was any type of sex pest involving humans animals and or robots I would not be surprised. I would be more surprised if he was nt. 

[jeep]

24 minutes ago, Ani said:

Musk is a really weird bloke. 
 

If it turned out he was any type of sex pest involving humans animals and or robots I would not be surprised. I would be more surprised if he was nt. 

Sure I saw somewhere that he's on the Spectrum.....

[stevieb]

He's trying to make it impossible for people to be taken seriously without a tick. 

So subscribe and give us your personal details for verification so you aren't anonymous. 

But it costs you 8 dollars. So bots don't bother. 

But also most other normal folk don't bother either. And I'd hazard a guess most bots he's arsed about don't actually have a tick right now either. 

Oh and twitter is still full of twats. 

 

[Lt. Aldo Raine]

He has to try and find a return on his £38.1 billion investment somehow.

[royal white]

All the conspiracy cranks were buzzing when he bought it, “bring back free speech” etc. they soon changed their tune when announced the blue tick fee 

[Horwich]

Genius move

[Spider]

I reckon you’ll end up having to pay a small subscription for access to all blue mark accounts. Probably only a couple of quid a year but that’s likely to generate tens of millions.

People are saying he’s thick for paying £44billion, I’m not so sure. Could be the bargain of all time in a decade or so.

[Sweep]

14 hours ago, royal white said:

All the conspiracy cranks were buzzing when he bought it, “bring back free speech” etc. they soon changed their tune when announced the blue tick fee 

Free Speech.....for only $96 a year.

I thought loons like Trump had already set up their own similar platforms anyway?!?!

[Sweep]

23 minutes ago, Spider said:

I reckon you’ll end up having to pay a small subscription for access to all blue mark accounts. Probably only a couple of quid a year but that’s likely to generate tens of millions.

People are saying he’s thick for paying £44billion, I’m not so sure. Could be the bargain of all time in a decade or so.

He'll make money - I've heard or seen a few folk who seem to reckon that it's the perfect platform for pumping and dumping Cryptos, that we all know he's heavily into. If that was the case, then his $44B, could be recouped very, very quickly

[DazBob]

16 hours ago, royal white said:

All the conspiracy cranks were buzzing when he bought it, “bring back free speech” etc. they soon changed their tune when announced the blue tick fee 

Charging for a blue tick, even though it isn't and never has been a blue tick (as Cheese rightly points out), doesn't mean free speech is being subdued.  It just means those that want to put their shite out there have to pay a fee to have a tick next to their name.  Don't pay it, don't have the tick.  It isn't stopping anyone posting.

That said, if this does stop high profile folk from using Twitter then it's an own goal for Musk.

[mickbrown]

It's quite funny seeing folk

 moaning about having to pay for the tick. Talking about how much 'work' is was to get one

Edited November 2, 2022 by mickbrown

[globaldiver]

7 hours ago, Spider said:

I reckon you’ll end up having to pay a small subscription for access to all blue mark accounts. Probably only a couple of quid a year but that’s likely to generate tens of millions.

People are saying he’s thick for paying £44billion, I’m not so sure. Could be the bargain of all time in a decade or so.

Only $44bn 

[Zico]

7 hours ago, Spider said:

 

People are saying he’s thick for paying £44billion, I’m not so sure. Could be the bargain of all time in a decade or so.

Makes you wonder why he tried to get out of it

[Winchester White]

It all seems very odd at the moment Twitter. 🤔 

[Spider]

Just now, Winchester White said:

It all seems very odd at the moment Twitter. 🤔 

I’m still thinking he’s going to make £44bill look like a good deal in time to come 

for now, it looks like he’s trying to make himself bankrupt.

But he’s changing things. And Twitter is still the biggest thing on the internet.

[Spider]

Also

i wouldn’t be surprised if he rebranded it slightly.

TwitterX

Or just X

Hes mental, but knows how to turn coin

[tyldesley_white]

 

[Tonge moor green jacket]

Hope it disappears.

 

[Spider]

1 hour ago, Tonge moor green jacket said:

Hope it disappears.

 

It’s what you make it really.

You can avoid the slimier parts and as an idea it’s an unparalleled invention.

Im not sure why everyone is so upset with Musk. It’s his, he paid 44 fckin billion notes for it, he’s allowed to roll it into a ball and shove it up his arse if he so desires.

Edited November 5, 2022 by Spider

[freds dad]

On 01/11/2022 at 21:23, Lt. Aldo Raine said:

He has to try and find a return on his £38.1 billion investment somehow.

Will probably never happen.

Most folk don’t realise the huge difference between a million and a billion.