“Blue check” chaos for Musk’s new toy
Twitter users rub Elon Musk’s “blue check” plan for Twitter in his face. Via Tech Crunch:
Elon Musk’s mercurial leadership and half-baked product plans are already creating fertile ground for confusion on Twitter.
We’ve lost count of how many times Musk has changed his mind or offered contradictory claims about what a new paid $8 verification badge would do, but after pushing the feature live, fake accounts are seizing on the chaos.
Twitter’s bought blue check marks are now available for some paying subscribers, injecting the timeline with tweets that appear to be from official accounts. And apparently Musk’s Twitter skeleton crew made no meaningful changes to the visual language of the blue check, so right now it signals that you’re either really who you say you are — @CocaCola, for instance — or you’re somebody random who just coughed up $8 and got a stamp of approval.
Musk was really unhappy about that one (above).
Elon Musk scrambles to reassure advertisers amid ‘blue check’ verification chaos
And there was plenty of chaos.
A-a-a-a-nd, early reports this morning suggest Twitter Blue is all but gone.
Musk was not the only rich guy melting down on the internet Thursday. Some deeply, needy and more deeply insecure “stable genius” in Florida was rather unhappy about the New York Post’s front page. About the failure of his midterm picks. And about Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.
Perhaps the International Olympic Committee would consider adding “super-rich narcissists losing their shit” competition to future games. (Would it be a summer or “winter of our discontent” event?) We’re already assembling a U.S. squad.