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Katie Mack

@astrokatie
9 posts
2023-03-31
“verification no longer establishes authority or credibility, instead it will only mean that someone has paid for a Twitter Blue subscription” -LA Times Managing Editor, on why they won't bother purchasing a blue check https://twitter.com/...
2023-03-31 View on X
BuzzFeed News

The NYT, LAT, and WaPo won't buy Twitter Blue; NYT, LAT, BuzzFeed, and Politico won't reimburse reporters for it, but Semafor and some other small outlets will

BuzzFeed isn't ponying up, but for other outlets, paying might make sense.  —  Pranav Dixit

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“verification no longer establishes authority or credibility, instead it will only mean that someone has paid for a Twitter Blue subscription” -LA Times Managing Editor, on why they won't bother purchasing a blue check https://twitter.com/...
2023-03-31 View on X
New York Times

Document: Twitter plans to exempt its top 500 advertisers and 10K most-followed, previously verified organizations from paying $1,000 per month for a checkmark

Mr. Musk requested a meeting with Lina Khan, the chair of the F.T.C., which has been investigating Twitter's privacy and data practices.

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2022-11-06
I really had no idea he could break this so badly, so quickly! 🤯
2022-11-06 View on X
CNBC

Jack Dorsey apologizes for growing Twitter “too quickly”, amid mass layoffs; Twitter's headcount grew from ~2,000 to 7,500+ between June 2013 and December 2021

- Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey apologized Saturday for growing the company “too quickly,” a day after hundreds …

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I really had no idea he could break this so badly, so quickly! 🤯
2022-11-06 View on X
Platformer

Sources detail Twitter after mass layoffs: key teams gutted, severance packages account for the WARN Act, and an ad hoc Google Docs directory of remaining staff

Hi 👋 - Third quarter earnings show that big tech … Rise & Shine ☀ : Twitter Layoffs: The lawsuit and Fears of misinformation Nikhil Subramaniam / Inc42 Media : Musk & Mayhem @Twitt...

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2022-11-05
I really had no idea he could break this so badly, so quickly! 🤯
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Platformer

Sources describe Twitter after mass layoffs: key teams gutted, severance packages account for WARN Act, ad hoc directories of remaining workers in Google Docs

I. The Snap  —  The email went out at 5:21 PT PT on Thursday.  —  For a full week, Twitter employees had waited in hopes …

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2022-11-02
The point of Twitter verification is that for certain individuals/organizations it's useful to be able to verify their statements are coming from them. (This is why so many journalists/reporters are verified.) It's supposed to help combat disinformation, not be a status symbol.
2022-11-02 View on X
@elonmusk

Elon Musk says the blue checkmark system is “bullshit” and Twitter Blue will be $8/month with half the ads, priority in replies, mentions, and search, and more

Twitter's current lords & peasants system for who has or doesn't have a blue checkmark is bullshit. Power to the people! Blue for $8/month.

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2022-11-01
Assuming these reports are reliable, this is both deeply depressing and entirely unsurprising 😞 https://twitter.com/...
2022-11-01 View on X
Bloomberg

Sources: Twitter froze some staff access to content moderation and policy enforcement tools, raising worries about a misinformation spike before the US midterms

Twitter Inc., the social network being overhauled by new owner Elon Musk, has frozen some employee access to internal tools used …

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The point of Twitter verification is that for certain individuals/organizations it's useful to be able to verify their statements are coming from them. (This is why so many journalists/reporters are verified.) It's supposed to help combat disinformation, not be a status symbol.
2022-11-01 View on X
New Statesman

Elon Musk's plan to monetize Twitter verification would generate little revenue, even at $20/month, and could create myriad issues, including enabling spammers

Elon Musk's latest brainwave risks alienating the users Twitter depends on and would expose it to lawsuits.

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2019-11-26
When I was in high school, we were required to buy $100 TI-83 graphing calculators for math class. The expense was a big deal for my family at the time. The TI-83 calculators used today, TWO DECADES LATER, are exactly the same, still required, and they still cost $100. https://twitter.com/...
2019-11-26 View on X
GEN

How Texas Instruments monopolized the US education market for graphing calculators, products with high profit margins and tech that hasn't changed in 20 years

These $100 calculators have been required in classrooms for more than twenty years, as students and teachers still struggle to afford them

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