I just found out X/Twitter unilaterally "verified" my old and dormant account there ("because you're an influential user"), now making me look like I'm an idiot who's voluntarily paying Musk eight bucks or whatever it is a month.
I already boosted a couple threads that explained how to hide the checkmark (it’s under “verification settings”).
But the fact that this is opt-out is still annoying. It’s like having my suit come back from the dry cleaner with a fascist armband sewn onto the sleeve because I didn’t notice the sign about their new free fascist armband policy.
I haven't used my Twitter account since I moved here over a year ago after Musk made his intentions clear. I made a pretty clean break.
Why don't I just delete the account? Two reasons:
The username is reasonably well known to belong to me, and if I delete the account, an impersonator could grab it.
Many old Twitter threads are linked to from elsewhere (news articles, blog posts, etc), and if I delete them, that content gets memory holed and the threads get broken.
@mattblaze curious if you've gone back to look at it? I have not looked at any of the Twitter accounts I abandoned but did not delete, but I heard a rumor awhile ago that musk was threatening to delete unused accounts
my skepticism is mostly born of my own personal concerns which sounded very similar and which have completely evaporated after I deleted my account and I have zero regrets
then again I'm just some random person on the fedi and I only had like 6 or 7,000 followers anyway, and I wasn't a known public person or anything like that
@mattblaze I wonder what their criteria is? Clearly they're desperate to bring back their "influencers." I had a verified check before and was a "prominent figure" by whatever that subjective quality is. Mine has not got it back (yet), but I only had 14k followers.
I'm not going back, but I am curious what devious plan is being attempted.
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