#blueticks — Public Fediverse posts

X/Twitter to make people show their blue ticks – after forcing them onto users
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/x-twitter-to-make-people-show-their-blue-ticks-after-forcing-them-onto-users/ar-BB1lwKM3?ei=7

#XTwitter
#Xitter
#BlueTicks

I wanted to keep calling it twitter but maybe I'll use the new name, because then I can say "I liked #twitter, but #X is rubbish!"

e.g. Does this search result mean nobody at #JGI2023 is willing to pay the guy who killed twitter to get their blue tick?

NOBODY should be rich enough to buy something half a billion people are using, and completely ruin it.

#ElonMusk #Birdsite #Billionaire #Capitalism #vectors #BlueTicks

@ELSimms

To stop kids getting #polio or #measles and to stop the planet getting cooked.

He SHOULD be paying for this, but he's not, and it needs to be done.

If whatever else you'd be doing does that more efficiently, your time is probably better spent on that.

But for anyone still spending time on #Twitter - rating #CommunityNotes is much more useful than arguing in the comments getting buried under #BlueTicks

We’ve figured out a way to beat Twitter at its own game - by blocking people with blue ticks | The Independent
#Twitter
#BlueTicks
#BlockTheBlue
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/elon-musk-twitter-blue-ticks-verified-b2329430.html

A delightful legal explanation of Blue Ticks, Dril Vs Musk and the rakestomp fandango.

5* would read again. Please share with friends who enjoy schadenfreude. 😉

@andrew fine podcast material here!

#BlueTicks #Dril #Twitter #RakeStomp

https://mastodon.ie/@Tupp_ed/110252841669350503
@Tupp_ed - New Gist: My superpower is not knowing... Today’s Gist on Musk v Dril has all the famous precedents you might want.

https://www.thegist.ie/the-gist-my-superpower-is-not-knowing/

@haentz it's hard because the size of Twitter and the presence of so many of the world's politicians, charities and campaigns means it really does sway society. Musk plan to sway Twitter to the right while retaining most users is sadly working, I think, and given campaigns to do something about it there will be banned out of existence, we probably need places like Mastodon to be hold those discussions. #Twitter #Musk #BlueTicks

Twitter Blue Ticks' 🔵 neverending drama..

“Twitter’s approach may help its business, but won’t help people identify who or what is worth listening to and the danger is that it will ultimately degrade trust that is critical for long-term sustainability”

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/apr/21/elon-musk-twitter-cull-verified-blue-ticks-cost

#Twitter #BlueTicks #BlueTick #Mastodon #Fediverse

It's surprising to see people proudly sharing that they are not going to pay for the blue ticks.

Small non-profit and charity organizations with limited resources won't be able to afford paying for a blue tick.

#JoinMastodon #BlueTick #BlueTicks #Twitter #BlueBird

#Twitter's #blueticks disappear as #Musk attacks #NYTimes
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-65156216

Mark #Zuckerberg : "Elon Musk is a business genius. I am a business genius. Elon done #BlueTicks on #Twitter, I will do blue ticks on #Facebook. We are both business geniuses".

Is anyone really surprised? But, 👇 could also be completely avoidable! #Twitter #verification #blueticks https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-64294613

The #Taliban are now buying #BlueTicks on #Twitter, just so you know the direction #ElonMusk is taking the site https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-64294613

I was just skimming through the #TrumpTaxReturns #hashtag on #Twitter for a few minutes.

The one thing I did notice, was just how few :verified: #Blueticks I saw in the posts.

Admittedly, people who are posting that tag are likely to be lefties, but even so I am glad that #TwitterBlue isn't catching on.

@katesparkle ... #BlueTicks Personally, I'd like to see a widely-accessible process for this, and following that, an option here to have a visual indication on every incoming toot of whether or not its author has been validated.

I wouldn't want to filter out invalidated authors; I can appreciate many situations in which authors need to remain anonymous, but I'd like to know that so that I can judge what weight I put on the content, and whether or not to engage.

@katesparkle #BlueTicks As I understand it, there is only a mechanism for proving that you have HTML write access to a web page (which gets you a tick - see my profile). That web site has a registered domain, so you could trace the site owner back to that, but there is nothing stopping anyone giving false information to the domain registrar.

A 'white hat' can use an HTTPS web certificate issued by an authority which checks legal identity (personal or corporate), but its expensive and optional.

After watching the movie 'Deep Impact', I've come up with another one of my brilliant ideas 🤓💭💡

➡️ A verified TICK system for comets and asteroids that could threaten Planet Earth 🌍☄️

GREEN TICK = <1% danger to Earth
AMBER TICK = Low-medium impact risk
RED TICK = High risk of a catastrophic collision

BLUE TICK = Totally insignificant but just wants ATTENTION

I'm thinking we could ask #ElonMusk to administer it, so everything runs smoothly... 😏

#Space #Humour #Comets #Asteroids #BlueTicks

@DavidHenig

I think Twitter became a shouting room. It might take longer to get conversations started here but they tend to be conversations.

I think the problem with Twitterarti, especially the blue ticks, is they still want to preach and it's not that kind of platform. They won't get that validation necessarily.

I do wonder how many will stay.

Perhaps they should start a platform of their own, if that's what they want.

#twittermigration
#blueticks
#conversation

#BlueTicks
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RT @joinmastodon
Looks like hosting your own Mastodon server is going to cost less than paying for a blue checkmark on Twitter. Except when you pay to host your own Mastodon server, you own your data, identity, and social graph fully.
https://twitter.com/joinmastodon/status/1587235262081499136