Why are celebrities so pissed about losing the badge?
Steven King went viral threatening to leave the platform and I and everybody pointing fingers at Elon and I’m just here thinking “why does Steven King care so badly?”
Steven King went viral threatening to leave the platform and I and everybody pointing fingers at Elon and I’m just here thinking “why does Steven King care so badly?”
Charging for that is just hostile to the community at large. It basically holds everyone hostage. How do you know the account you are looking at is controlled by the "actual" person in question?
At least, probably I think this is an issue.
You seem perfectly okay with those people being held hostage but then complain when a rule is applied equally to everyone. Seems to me your idea is: rules for thee but not for me.
Then again so is Bernie Sanders and Nancy Pelosi. Who is the other half of the US population being held hostage by that group. Do you really think Communists make up 50% of the US population?
Otherwise I think there's too much counter-evidence to your anecdote.
The person I responded to said its used to verify your identity. If that was the case anyone who verified their identity should have one. But that is not how it worked. You could verify your identity and still not get a blue check mark if the committee decided to not give you one.
Also I'm confused where you got communists? I never once said anything about communists. At least try to have a good faith discussion instead of making up random things.
https://nitter.net/TwitterSupport/status/930926295034224641
"This perception became worse when we opened up verification for public submissions and verified people who we in no way endorse"
Directly from the horse mouth. Blue check marks are for people they endorse. They changed to rules to ensure it stayed that way.
“Important” is incredibly subjective.
It’s also extremely unlikely anyone would pay $96 per year, per bot, so it’s expected that problem would work itself out.
Bitcoin scammers are also typically not poor, but usually have enough cryptocurrency to buy stolen credit card databases.
But as a business, Twitter doesn't want to kill off their advertising revenue. I'm not a fan of Stephen King and don't care what he thinks, but his followers probably bring in more than $8 of ad revenue.
Stephen King cares because he aligns with the Progressive Left as his tribe.
It doesn't matter whether the policy is equally fair, it only matters whether it possibly allows people on the political Right to start speaking on Twitter again. Not that this move guarantees anything like that, but it is perceived that this could be the result.
tl;dr: Stephen King has been led to believe this is the plan to get Trump back on Twitter.