Musk is off to a rip-roaring begin. Throughout his first weekend of Twitter possession, he fired off a tweet suggesting that the assault on Paul Pelosi was his fault — that it occurred in a drunken homosexual tryst. It was simply the worst form of proper wing libel from loopy city.
Elon Musk and a variety of right-wing personalities cobbled collectively misreporting, innuendo and outright falsehoods to amplify misinformation about final week’s violent assault on Paul Pelosi to their thousands and thousands of on-line followers.
A discussion board dedicated to former White Home adviser Stephen Ok. Bannon’s right-wing radio present alerted its 78,000 subscribers to “very unusual new particulars on Paul Pelosi assault.” Roger Stone, a longtime political consigliere to former president Donald Trump, took to the fast-growing messaging app Telegram to name the assault on Home Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband an “alleged assault,” telling his followers {that a} “stench” surrounded mainstream reporting concerning the Friday break-in that left Pelosi, 82, hospitalized with a cranium fracture and different severe accidents.
I suppose that is the place Twitter goes, transitioning to a group of these lunatic Fb posts your demented uncle reposts on-line. Content material goes to suck, but in addition…they name Musk an excellent businessman? He has no concept what he’s doing. He needs to extend the profitability of the platform immediately by charging to get a blue test mark on their account.
Now that he owns Twitter, Elon Musk has given workers their first ultimatum: Meet his deadline to introduce paid verification on Twitter or pack up and go away.
The directive is to vary Twitter Blue, the corporate’s elective, $4.99 a month subscription that unlocks extra options, right into a costlier subscription that additionally verifies customers, in line with individuals acquainted with the matter and inside correspondence seen by The Verge. Twitter is planning to cost $19.99 for the brand new Twitter Blue subscription, although that worth is topic to vary. Staff engaged on the mission had been advised on Sunday that they should meet a deadline of November seventh to launch the function or they are going to be fired.
Musk has been clear within the months main as much as his acquisition that he needed to revamp how Twitter verifies accounts and handles bots. He’s additionally eager on rising subscriptions to turn into half of the corporate’s total income. On Sunday, he tweeted: “The entire verification course of is being revamped proper now.”
That is nuts. For years they’ve given customers the power to get “verified”, that’s to have their identities confirmed, which might grant them the wonderful reward of getting a blue test mark subsequent to their title. That’s it. They by no means made case for what profit this would offer, aside from bragging rights and ego stroking, so I by no means bothered to use for it. The options supplied by Twitter Blue, and never price $5/month, not to mention $20.
He has additionally knowledgeable Twitter engineers that they have to get these boring new options carried out by 7 November, or they’ll be fired. Good.
I used to be assuming that Musk would let Twitter limp alongside, making incremental adjustments, however it appears to be like like his plan is to speed up the implosion of the corporate as quick as he can.
