Ghostman
Ambassador of the SuperNatural
I'm not sure if anyone is following all the drama from Twitter these last few weeks, but my wife and I have been laughing our butts off these past several days at all the problems.
The paid accounts to get your "verified" blue check-mark was a disaster of biblical proportions. We were thoroughly entertained by the amount of people who paid the fee, and then trolled like madmen. I'm not a Twitter user so I don't know the in's and out's but apparently, you could pay the fee, get your cert and then change your name to whatever you felt like.
There were hundreds of people who changed their names and caused massive chaos. Elon's account went from himself, to dozens of impersonators. Coke, "tweeted" that they were putting Cocaine back into the mix, Pepsi "tweeted" Coke was better, etc.
I use "Tweeted" in quotes because that's the trolls posting.
The most impressive: Eli Lily "tweeted" that they were making Insulin free. That of course caused them to report the post, which stood for hours, and then tweeted a retraction. That little debacle caused their stock evaluation to tumble $15 BILLION dollars in the matter of one day.
Lockhead Martin "tweeted" that they were done making and selling weapons to foreign governments. That caused their value to tumble $4 Billion dollars.
I love it when the industry is shown to be so precarious in their position.
As for Twitter, it will be an interesting next few weeks to see if they can turn things around. They cancelled the paid subscription and stopped the name changing. But, Elon fired most of the top management, and then the rest left of their own accord. They have NO one in the compliance department, not even the pencil pushers, and they have NO one in the public relations department left either. So, none of the news agencies can get quotes from the company because, well, there's no one left to answer the phones.
It's BEAUTIFUL MAN!
The paid accounts to get your "verified" blue check-mark was a disaster of biblical proportions. We were thoroughly entertained by the amount of people who paid the fee, and then trolled like madmen. I'm not a Twitter user so I don't know the in's and out's but apparently, you could pay the fee, get your cert and then change your name to whatever you felt like.
There were hundreds of people who changed their names and caused massive chaos. Elon's account went from himself, to dozens of impersonators. Coke, "tweeted" that they were putting Cocaine back into the mix, Pepsi "tweeted" Coke was better, etc.
I use "Tweeted" in quotes because that's the trolls posting.
The most impressive: Eli Lily "tweeted" that they were making Insulin free. That of course caused them to report the post, which stood for hours, and then tweeted a retraction. That little debacle caused their stock evaluation to tumble $15 BILLION dollars in the matter of one day.
Lockhead Martin "tweeted" that they were done making and selling weapons to foreign governments. That caused their value to tumble $4 Billion dollars.
I love it when the industry is shown to be so precarious in their position.
As for Twitter, it will be an interesting next few weeks to see if they can turn things around. They cancelled the paid subscription and stopped the name changing. But, Elon fired most of the top management, and then the rest left of their own accord. They have NO one in the compliance department, not even the pencil pushers, and they have NO one in the public relations department left either. So, none of the news agencies can get quotes from the company because, well, there's no one left to answer the phones.
It's BEAUTIFUL MAN!
