Twitter/X ist ja schon tot. Jetzt vertreibt Musk auch noch die letzten Zombies, die dort herumspuken. 🧟🧟🧟
"Schon jetzt werden kostenpflichtigae Accounts auf X bevorzugt. Um Bots zu vertreiben, soll der Dienst aber bald für alle etwas kosten, hat Elon Musk angekündigt."
@kuketzblog Das könnte wohl auf Dauer wirklich der Todesstoß für das Netzwerk werden, wenn der Großteil der Leute, die dort nur ihre Freizeit verbringen, nicht bereit ist, auch noch dafür zu bezahlen. Sieht man ja auch gut daran, wie wenige dieser Gruppe bereit waren, für ein #TwitterBlue Abo zu zahlen...
#ElonMusk’s #X can’t send Blue subscribers their ad revenue-sharing payouts on time
Friday night is a good time to announce you’re not paying your bills.
"That’s not exactly what you’d want to hear from a program touting itself as “part of our effort to help people earn a living directly on X,” and the key to Elon Musk’s X dream for an app that handles #banking, stock trading, and other vital financial features."
Not only has the way ads been marked been changed, but Musk has also given subscribers the option to hide their blue checkmarks, presumably because people keep blocking them.
It really is a mark of shame, isn't it? With one everyone knows you're a sucker and/or a troll.
Twitter Blue subscribers can now hide their blue checks | #TheVerge
#TwitterBlue, which #ElonMusk is currently rebranding to €X Blue, now includes the option to hide the notorious #BlueCheckmark. Twitter Blue subscribers recently started noticing the “hide your blue checkmark” option on the web and in mobile apps, offering the ability to hide that they’re paying for #Twitter and avoid memes about how “this mf paid for twitter.”
The letter cited #research published by #CCDH in June examining #HateSpeech on #Twitter, which #Musk renamed #X. The research consisted of 8 papers, incl’g 1 that found Twitter had taken no action against 99% of the 100 #TwitterBlue accounts the ctr reported for “tweeting hate.” The letter called the research “false, misleading or both”& said the org had used improper methodology.
The ltr added that the ctr was funded by Twitter’s competitors or foreign govs “in support of an ulterior agenda.”
Twitter is becoming sort of classist, separating those who pay for Twitter verification from those who don't. The blue checkmark on Twitter means nothing other than you're part of the club. Pretty soon Twitter may only consist of people with blue checkmarks, because they are the ones blindly going along with Elon Musk's shenanigans.
And although anyone on #Twitter could have told you that #Twitter has been taken over by bots and propagandists since #ElonMusk took over, the story this week about #TwitterBlue subscribers never having tweets removed even if they were overt #nazi propaganda is also backed up by stories of who the handful of TwitterBlue subscribers are. The #Taliban, #nazis, & #Russian misinformation apparently by and large. #Elon really knows how to choose his friends... https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66113460
How utterly unexpected. Turns out 8 bucks a month isn't exactly outside the FSB's budget.
"Twitter Blue accounts fuel Ukraine War misinformation
False and misleading posts about the Ukraine conflict continue to go viral on major social media platforms, as Russia's invasion of the country extends beyond 500 days.
Some of the most widely shared examples can be found on Twitter, posted by subscribers with a blue tick, who pay for their content to be promoted to other users."
Russian troll #Twitter blue "verified" accounts spread misinformation about #Russian genocidal war against #Ukraine, giving it preferential visibility to millions of users. Congratulations, (F)Elon, your imbecile idea is doing exactly what the critics said it would ...
TweetDeck ab August hinter einer Paywall
Twitter hat am Montag offiziell angekündigt, TweetDeck, die erweiterte, mehrspaltige Version von Twitter, ab nächsten Monat hinter eine Paywall zu verlegen.
Again, for about 2 weeks now, the number of these generic Tweets has been increasing dramatically. In some instances you get 4-5 of these threads directly below each other. If you open a thread, all the containing tweets contained are loaded and count against your limit.
If you happen to launch a quota of 600 tweets/day for non-paying users, because you need them to buy #Twitterblue, filling their timelines with this generic bot content seems like the perfect tool to drain their "free" #quota.
Elon Musk is threatening to end his $44 billion agreement to buy Twitter, accusing the company of refusing to give him information about its spam bot accounts.