Mike Masnick ✅Nov 9, 2022
The new "bluechecks will fix everything" system over on the other site seems to have, maybe, a few bugs that a competent trust & safety team might have been useful in working through...
Show threadAaron Ross Powell ☸️
@mmasnick It's bizarre how much of this kind of stuff inevitably happening was, like, entirely obvious to anyone who gave it a moment's thought. It's difficult to believe (1) Musk could make decisions of this sort with so little pause for reflection, and (2) no one is raising the likelihood of their occurrence with him. It's Steve Jobs's Reality Distortion Field taken all the way down its Leeroy Jenkins slippery slope.
Nov 9, 2022 at 11:12pmWeb
Show threadMike Masnick ✅Nov 9, 2022
@arossp yes to all of that. truly amazing. I mean TONS of experts in this field (and non experts too) predicted exactly this.
Show threadhereforasecNov 9, 2022
@mmasnick @arossp Every time Twitter has made a change in the last several years, they have done it slowly, slowly…with great forethought. It’s huge, and everything has incredible consequences.
Show threadAaron Ross Powell ☸️Nov 9, 2022
@mmasnick I get the sense that Musk just firmly believes, even if subconsciously, that his first impressions *are* expertise.
Show threadTim GNov 9, 2022
@arossp @mmasnick If your management approach on moving into a completely different industry is "How hard can it be?", you'll have quite a few surprises you didn't see coming.
Show threadSerowNov 9, 2022
@arossp @mmasnick Wait, am I to understand that the new verification system doesn’t involve any amount of identity verification?
Show threadMike Masnick ✅Nov 9, 2022
@serow @arossp it involves, do you have a credit card with $8 available...