Then there was the peremptory, if not-at-all unexpected, dismissal of the top tier of management a pair of pranksters carrying cardboard boxes who tricked journalists into reporting they’d just been sacked and escorted offsite staff who had been sacked apparently finding out when their access codes abruptly stopped working and Twitter’s apparent rush to switch its well-known Blue Badge into a subscription service, not simply a verification system.Īt the time of writing, however, Twitter’s own documentation still stressed that so-called Verified Accounts are so labelled in order to denote that “an account of public interest is authentic, notable, and active.” There’s been plenty to set the fur flying, starting with Musk’s curious choice of metaphor in arriving at Twitter HQ on takeover day with a kitchen sink, as though the company’s products and services were already so close to complete that they needed nothing more than the aforementioned dishwashing receptacle to finish things off. …but if you take into account the number of news stories about it (and, perhaps ironically under the circumstances, the volume of Twitter threadspace devoted to it), it probably feels a lot longer. ![]() It’s only a week since Elon Musk’s take-private of Twitter on 28 October 2022…
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