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Anyone think this was Musk's game plan?

Not Eli specifically but intentionally causing chaos.

"Both Musk and Calacanis agreed that Twitter Blue is “an insane piece of shit” and its features should be razed and rethought outright. “These dipshits spent a year on Twitter Blue to give people exactly… Nothing they want!” Calacanis texted." [0]

[0] https://techcrunch.com/2022/09/29/elon-musk-texts-discovery-...

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I don't think Musk really has a game plan.

I think Musk has a new hobby.

It's okay to cry that the emperor has no clothes. Musk has no competence for running a social media company. There is no grand strategy. Maybe he'll get a grip eventually. It certainly doesn't look like it right now.

I mean the guy has the mentality of a 15 year old meme edgelord that thinks he's smarter than everyone on earth. he got into a fight with some diver that rescued children from a cave and called him a pedophile because they didn't want to use his impractical submarine that wasn't ever going to work. what do we really expect from him?

I think plan is (1) decrease censorship in favor of left, (2) PE style cuts to drop expenses.

Now that they added back the "verified" stamp an internal slack message said to only allow it for advertisers. So the advertisers that pulled out like Oreo or whatever wouldn't be able to get it it seems (edit, pointed out below: Oreo does have it, some other major companies like McDonalds don't but I'm not sure of their advertiser status), which in turn seems like extortion (put them at the mercy of fake accounts and confusion without the verfied wording) to go along with the earlier advertiser blackmail ("name and shame" for hurting what Musk characterizes as "free speech" if they dont pay back up).

Source:

> this message was posted in the Twitter Slack to clarify: "An update on what we did tonight: hid the entry point to Twitter Blue, added the 'official' label for ONLY advertisers."

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/11/twitter-quietly-...

Emphasis not added.

Oreo has the official tag https://twitter.com/Oreo

Ah, I noticed McDonald's didn't and that was my original example before an initial unmarked edit, but then I wasn't sure if McDonald's was an advertiser.

So maybe it is extended to anyone that advertised in the recent past?

@McDanaids still shows up the same level of veracity as @McDonalds and @McDonaldsCorp:

https://www.twitter.com/McDanaIds/status/1590934953457782784

https://www.twitter.com/McDonalds

https://www.twitter.com/McDonaldsCorp

Other major companies seem to not have it either, I'm not sure if they are an advertiser:

https://twitter.com/jetblue

If that were the case, why would they revoke blue checks and prevent any more signups? Or was just the right amount of chaos created that they didn't need to create any more?

4d chess from a marketing genius. Will only be offered seasonally, like the McRib.

I don't think for a second that this is Musks fault. he did not pull billions of investment dollars from a fairly solid company =based on a tweet.

Seriously.. who the hell listens solely to twitter posts as authoritative, blue tick or not?!?

Does he look like a guy with a plan?

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