An excerpt from the book Character Limit details the chaotic revamp of Twitter Blue, including Elon Musk's haphazard planning and Esther Crawford's involvement
From @kateaconger and @mac_ryan_'s new book: “Ms. Crawford and Mr. Jones faced a maelstrom of criticism across Twitter, and the product designer wanted to delete his post. … Kate Conger / @kateaconger...
An excerpt from the book Character Limit details the chaotic revamp of Twitter Blue, including Elon Musk's haphazard planning and Esther Crawford's involvement
By Nov. 9, 2022, anxiety was high among the Twitter employees gathered at the company's San Francisco headquarters. Threads: @oliverdarcy , @kateaconger , @sheerafrenkel , @mac_ryan_ , @thekenyeung , ...
Extremely Hardcore book excerpt: how Elon Musk's decision to impose rate limits on Twitter in summer 2023 helped upsell Blue, as he prepared to launch xAI
Zoë Schiffer / Wired : Bluesky: @zoeschiffer.bsky.social . X: @laurengoode . Forums: r/Twitter Bluesky: Zoë Schiffer / @zoeschiffer.bsky.social : For Wired, a new excerpt from my book, Extremely Hard...
A likely fake 8-month-old Twitter account with a Blue check and 130K followers, suspended after WaPo informed Twitter, is a case study in political rage baiting
The Erica Marsh account shows how ‘rage baiting’ remains a powerful way to win attention and score political points
Elon Musk says Twitter has temporarily limited verified accounts to reading 10K posts/day, unverified 1K, and new unverified 500, due to “extreme” data scraping
Censorship Expert Says Musk ‘Has Stepped on a Rattlesnake’ Jonas Mäki / Gamereactor UK : Twitter stops data collection by adding lots of restrictions Brayden Lindrea / Cointelegraph : Elon Musk impose...
Some critics of Twitter Blue, including @dril, Kara Swisher, and Twitch streamer Hasan Piker, say Twitter gave them unwanted Blue checkmarks
Which dril did. — And it came back immediately. Which only happens via manual review. … Kirk Kittell / @kittell@universeodon.com : @Techmeme Screwing with dril seems like a bad strategy. If the un...
Twitter appears to have restored verification checkmarks to many accounts with 1M+ followers, saying they are subscribed to Blue; some deny they paid for Blue
But Some Celebrities Don't Want Them Todd Spangler / Variety : Twitter Restores Blue Check-Marks for Many Celebs, Including Several Dead Ones Stan Schroeder / Mashable : Celebs weren't buying Twitter'...
Some critics of Twitter Blue, such as @dril, Kara Swisher, and Twitch streamer Hasan Piker, say they have been given unwanted Blue checkmarks
If you can't beat 'em verify 'em. … The latest speed bump in the rollout of Twitter's revamped verification policy under new owner Elon Musk is here: Spite checkmarks.
Twitter appears to have restored verification checkmarks to many accounts with 1M+ followers, saying they are subscribed to Blue; some deny they paid for Blue
Across Twitter on Saturday, some of the platform's biggest names expressed surprise when their fickle checkmarks suddenly reappeared.
Twitter begins removing blue checkmarks from legacy verified accounts, fulfilling one of Elon Musk's long-stated plans; Musk has called the system “corrupt”
Elon already took away the blue check from some publications like the The New York Times … Caroline Giegerich : The Twitter check shakedown has begun. Twitter has officially begun removing blue check...