Twitter "pauses" its $8 bluecheck sale after a day of brand-impersonating chaos

Originally published at: Twitter "pauses" its $8 bluecheck sale after a day of brand-impersonating chaos | Boing Boing

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It’s becoming a challenge to keep up with all this.

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Truly a titan of industry. A genius of business.

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If only everyone had predicted this.

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It’s almost like Musk spent billions of dollars for a pair of They Live glasses for each person in the world specifically to use when they look at him.

John Carpenter GIF by Coolidge Corner Theatre

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elmomusk

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I will say this - I did see a lot of very funny things because of the impersonating.
Not including the Musk fan boys in that, but some of those tweets are funny, too. In a bizarre way.
Between that and the crypto boys arguing about the latest exchange disaster, it’s been an interesting week.

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Except Cohaagen from Total Recall was competent evil.

Life on the Musk colony would probably get wiped out when Elon decided to demonstrate how indestructible the habitat’s windows were.

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You’d have to crazy to be working at Twitter right now and not be thinking of leaving with a reasonable settlement; if the company keeps being run like this, it will fail and then there won’t any money to pay former employees.

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This chaos of constant bad ideas and reversals could be a sign that Musk has appointed Liz Truss to the Twitter board.

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Gee, it’s almost like Twitter moderation wasn’t about curbing free speech, but keeping it from devolving into a chaotic cesspool. Because sites left to their own devices will almost always devolve into that with out some moderation.

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The easiest way to picture this chaos is that it’s really just a whirlpool.

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And Elmo the Muppet character probably would make a better CEO of twitter than El Musky.

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“we are pivoting from our pivots pivot”

Oh good, incoming disaster"solution" inbound.

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You just gave me a great a idea for a parody account, were I so inclined to exert any actual energy on trolling that asshat;

Elno, a polite not-muppet that tries to reason with his human counterpart by pointing out all his stupid choices in terms so simple, a 5 year old can understand it.

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That makes me smile; thanks!

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How to identify sane personnel at Twitter:

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