[arista]

[Mystic Mock]

Originally Posted by arista

You do not have to have it

Well that's because I'm already a bit tick.

[Mystic Mock]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

The fact that 21.7% voted against free speech.

But when it comes to Elon Musk he strikes me as someone that only cares about free speech when it suits him.

[GoldHeart]

Twitter is such a cesspool of garbage , so glad i don't use it ... so i can't imagine paying £8 a month for a silly blue tick. I wouldn't even pay a penny .

[Zizu]

So his first job was to sack 50% of the Twitter staff !!!


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[GoldHeart]

Originally Posted by Zizu

So his first job was to sack 50% of the Twitter staff !!!


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Sounds that way

[Oliver_W]

Originally Posted by Zizu

So his first job was to sack 50% of the Twitter staff !!!


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Fair enough, a lot of them were probably just being paid to warm seats anyway, and as a tech guy he probably knows more effective ways to run it.
Also, if he wants less moderation, that obviously means less staff

[arista]

Originally Posted by GoldHeart

Twitter is such a cesspool of garbage , so glad i don't use it ... so i can't imagine paying £8 a month for a silly blue tick. I wouldn't even pay a penny .

Media get their company to
pay the $8 for them

[bitontheslide]

it's his company, he could make himself the only employee if he wanted

The previous board were the problem with twitter. It hasn't generated any income in years, you cant blame musk for that. The guy is a prick, but its his company now, he can do what he wants with it

[Zizu]

I’ll never understand finances ..

He says they are over staffed and losing £4 million a day then sacks 4,000 workers giving them all 3 months severance pay !?

Surely that’s gonna cost an absolute fortune in the coming days / weeks !?


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[bitontheslide]

Originally Posted by Zizu

I’ll never understand finances ..

He says they are over staffed and losing £4 million a day then sacks 4,000 workers giving them all 3 months severance pay !?

Surely that’s gonna cost an absolute fortune in the coming days / weeks !?


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its a finite cost though, and paying them 2 months is a lot less than paying them indefinitely

[Oliver_W]

Originally Posted by Soldier Boy

Require everyone to use their real name and verify their identity on sign-up. No need for blue ticks, no fake accounts, no bots, far less trolling.

To sign up as a company or organisation, make it that the email address has to be @ the official site.

I'm not generally a fan of the idea of verified ID being required for everything but the initial idea behind Twitter was that people would use their real name and photo... it was never intended to be an anonymous trolling platform but that's what it increasingly is becoming.

I'd say do it the other way round - absolutely no accounts should have visible ties to your real identity. You can't be "trolled" if no-one knows who you are

Wait a min, isn't Reddit like that? You don't log in, and when you post it's just a random string of numbers?

[Zizu]

Originally Posted by bitontheslide

its a finite cost though, and paying them 2 months is a lot less than paying them indefinitely

3 months wages for half the staff payable up front ( now ) seems like a massive outgoing / expense if they are leaking money each day though


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[Oliver_W]

Originally Posted by Zizu

3 months wages for half the staff payable up front ( now ) seems like a massive outgoing / expense if they are leaking money each day though


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I see what you're saying but after the three months, they'd certainly see the difference.

[bitontheslide]

Originally Posted by Zizu

3 months wages for half the staff payable up front ( now ) seems like a massive outgoing / expense if they are leaking money each day though


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every company that is leaking money does exactly the same, its standard practice. Its 60 days btw, and that is so he doesnt fall foul of california employment law

[Zizu]

Originally Posted by bitontheslide

every company that is leaking money does exactly the same, its standard practice. Its 60 days btw, and that is so he doesnt fall foul of california employment law

I saw reports he’d offered more than the set 2 months amount to appease everyone


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[Oliver_W]

Love the Weasel

[arista]

A Tech Journalist

on Times Radio Live
says some staff members sacked
have been invited back

[bitontheslide]

Elon Musk says Twitter users engaging in impersonation without clearly specifying it as a parody account will be permanently suspended.

Twitter previously issued a warning before suspending accounts, but there would now be no warning, he announced.

A number of accounts that changed their name to Elon Musk and mocked the billionaire have already been suspended or placed behind a warning sign.

Twitter's billionaire new owner took over the company late last month.

At the end of last week he laid off around half of the company's workforce.

He has also confirmed plans to allow users to buy blue-tick, verified status.

Detailing the new policy on parody accounts, Mr Musk tweeted: "Previously, we issued a warning before suspension, but now that we are rolling out widespread verification, there will be no warning."

He added that "any name change at all will cause temporary loss of verified checkmark".

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-63539617

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free speech being banned

[arista]

"parody account will be permanently suspended."


They will have to set up another account

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by bitontheslide

Elon Musk says Twitter users engaging in impersonation without clearly specifying it as a parody account will be permanently suspended.

Twitter previously issued a warning before suspending accounts, but there would now be no warning, he announced.

A number of accounts that changed their name to Elon Musk and mocked the billionaire have already been suspended or placed behind a warning sign.

Twitter's billionaire new owner took over the company late last month.

At the end of last week he laid off around half of the company's workforce.

He has also confirmed plans to allow users to buy blue-tick, verified status.

Detailing the new policy on parody accounts, Mr Musk tweeted: "Previously, we issued a warning before suspension, but now that we are rolling out widespread verification, there will be no warning."

He added that "any name change at all will cause temporary loss of verified checkmark".

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-63539617

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free speech being banned

Oh Dear

[Oliver_W]

[Liam-]

He’s an overgrown toddler that’s bought a social media company to punish those that make fun of him, it’s actually so pathetic

[LeatherTrumpet]

Bring back Trump please Elon

[Oliver_W]

Originally Posted by Liam-

He’s an overgrown toddler that’s bought a social media company to punish those that make fun of him, it’s actually so pathetic

Let the whole thing burn, twitter is toxic af and if his shenanigans kill it, then great!