#blocktheblue

[sirartwork]

dril, waking up to another thrice-damned checkmark

#dril #twitter #Elon Musk #Blue Checkmark #BlockTheBlue

[whydidisavethistomyphone]

Let’s check in and see how twitter is doing

#twitte #Twitter blue #twitter verified #blue checkmark #blocktheblue #elon musk #account impersonation

[cherry-purple]

In addition to blocking everyone with a blue checkmark, I think Twitter users should all post that one photo of Elon Musk hanging out with Ghislaine Maxwell over and over while hashtagging it with shit like “crypto”, “entrepreneur”, “doge”, “republican”, “familyvalues”, etc 💕

It wouldn’t even be breaking any rules cus Elon *is* related to all those things.

#twitter #elongated muskrat #blocktheblue #just absolutely ruin twitter for the blue checkmarkers #I’m sure there’s many other Very Interesting photos that can be used #twitanic

[drilanime]

#Black Lagoon #Revy #Revy Two Hand #BlockTheBlue #Madhouse #Dril #DrilAnime

[wheredoisign]

#dril #Elon Musk #Twitter #BlockTheBlue

[paranoidmarvin]

#twitter #blocktheblue #tumblr dot com #the website and app #hope you appreciate the hesitation

[3inno]

Meanwhile on the lesser blue hellsite...

#i disagree with twitter blue and I make that adamantly clear #zinnodraws #drawing #mini comic #personifications #Twitter #Twitter Blue #block the blue #blocktheblue #elno

[jilted-generation]

With all that money, I guess he never thought about therapy.

#epic games #tim sweeney #video games #twitter #twitter verified #blue check nonsense #blocktheblue #therapy

[spamreports]

Twitter "verified" users post airdrop scams

wallet drainers

twitter.com/RingRaidETH

twitter.com/Zayts_ETHs

twitter.com/cashmakereth

twitter.com/Spears_ETH98

🐦 Do not click any links on twitter, even from "verified" accounts. 🛑 Why - because anyone can buy a "verified" account and post scams with it.

#nigerian scams #scam #phishing #spoof #crypto scam #fake airdrop #crypto phishing #spam #fake #fraud #scam site #warning #twitter #verified #twitter blue #twitterblue #blocktheblue #twitter scam #twitter dm spam

[toomanystoryideas]

accidentally unblocking people on twitter because my block button reflexes are just that instantaneous

#twitter #blocktheblue #block the blue

[djsttdj]

#blocktheblue #twitter blue #twitter

[ghostie-toast]

was anyone going to tell me soy sauce is made with soy beans or was I supposed to sus that out myself.?

#i have a block of chedder cheese where my brain should be #help #dumb #tumblr #humor #10k #instamodel #mha #blocktheblue #how many tags can i put before someone calls me out on it #osteoporosis #personal #okay to reblog #soy beans #soy sauce #flat earther #scientology

[respectissexy]

If you are not on Twitter but are interested in what's going on with Elon Musk's Twitter, never fear, I am back as your Twitter Correspondent.

So, on Thursday, 4/20, Elon removed all the "legacy verified" blue checks. That means that if you are, say, Taylor Swift or the Pope, and you have a blue checkmark because you have proven you identity and want to avoid being impersonated, that check mark went away unless you paid the $8 to subscribe to Twitter Blue.

The assumption was clearly that, despite all their blustering, when push came to shove the power users would nut up and pay for it, if only to avoid their fans being scammed using their likeness.

That didn't happen. As of 4/21, only weirdo Elon stans had blue checks. Those stans immediately got mad, because they had intended to purchase access to an exclusive club, and all the cool kids left as soon as they arrived.

To make matters worse for Elon, several influential shitposters began posting about #BlockTheBlue, a movement to block all paid Twitter bluechecks, and some even released scripts that would automatically block all bluecheck accounts for you.

However, some people retained their blue checks who swore they hadn't paid for them -- in particular, Stephen King and LeBron James, who had tweeted that they would refuse to pay.

Elon admitted that he had paid for these users' blue checks out of his own pocket. Is he trolling? Is it a weird simp move? Hard to say.

Now, as of 4/22, a whole mess of famous people have bluechecks who aren't paying for them. This seems to be a move to confound the automated Block The Blue scripts. Lil Nas X is tweeting angrily about how he doesn't want his blue check. People are speculating that a new policy has been silently rolled out to automatically assign a blue check to every user with over 1 million followers. Several people have pointed out that this amounts to false endorsement, i.e. implying falsely that a notable person uses or endorses your product without their permission, which is a crime. Blue checks have been posthumously assigned to Anthony Bourdain and Terry Pratchett, whose estates my money is on to be the ones to actually sue.

dril, famous shitposter and Block The Blue promoter, keeps being assigned a blue check as an apparent punishment for crossing Elon, but you can lose your blue check by changing your display name. (It seems really wild to tie the blue check to the display name and not use the username, but it became necessary after the era where all those legacy verified folks unleashed their inner Jaboukie and changed their display names to Elon Musk. As recently as last month a legacy verified user with 100k followers got banned for impersonating JK Rowling apologizing to trans people.) So dril just keeps changing his display name every time they bluecheck him. Elon and dril have been engaged in this game of cat and mouse all day. The "Elon bans dril and we all throw trash at him like New Yorkers defending spiderman" meme will probably come to fruition today or tomorrow.

#Twitter #Elon Musk #twitanic #most of you probably followed me for d20 stuff and didn't know I was a Twitter Refugee #I'm in great company (Chuck Tingle is a Twitter refugee as well)

[squeakitties]

for today's news, consummate crybaby loser Elon Musk repeatedly forced a verification checkmark on renowned twitter user dril, after dril made a series of tweets making fun of twitter blue subscribers and promoting the #blocktheblue hashtag.

dril was never verified, even before the verification system update. elon's use of applying the verified status on dril is explicitly a punishment and attempted mockery from the viewpoint of somebody with over one hundred billion dollars to his name.

also, forcing somebody to apparently endorse a product or service you are selling against their will is illegal.

[wilwheaton]

Elon's new blue-check subscription service was a massive flop, and the sudden removal of nearly half a million blue-checks suddenly made it crystal clear to Twitter's user base that the blue-check club going forward was going to be populated almost entirely by right-wing weirdos. There would be no hanging out with Stephen King or LeBron James; your fellow blue-checks would instead be a few notorious racists and jokes from (checks notes) influential wag "catturd." In fact, by so clearly labeling the worst of Twitter’s worst people, it spurred a genius #BlockTheBlue backlash, in which people gleefully banned the blue-check trolls that now populated the top of every single prominent Twitter thread (like those of actual celebrities announcing their refusal to pay for what was now a worthless mark). The visible unpopularity of the program wasn't just embarrassing for Musk. It's an existential threat to the program’s viability. Musk sold the subscription service as a way to become one of the site's Important People without merit; if all the Important People didn’t just stay off the program, but mocked it, only the most diehard of Musk loyalists would be eager to sign up for that. As the collapse of the program became self-evident, third parties had already begun working on automated #BlockTheBlue plugins that would systematically block all checkmarks. So Musk immediately set out to salvage the reputation and very existence of the $8 club—by forcing Important People to be in it whether they liked it or not. And by "immediately," we mean "by afternoon."

Elon Musk's Twitter Blue is a verified disaster

I was one of Twitter’s early adopters. I was one of those accounts they suggested you follow when it started to get big. I went from a few thousand followers to a hundred thousand in a matter of days, and was at 3 million when I closed my account.

I left Twitter long before Musk took over, but I kept the account to protect it and the branding it comes with from bad people.

Last year, before Musk bought it, I posted a couple of tweets to let those three million accounts know that my memoir had been published. It seemed silly not to. I turned replies off, and just let it be an announcement.

Then Musk took over, and I watched Twitter turn into 4Chan. When it started to become 8Chan, I deleted my entire archive, unfollowed everyone except family, and then made my account private. I figure I still need to protect the username.

I don’t look at my account, but someone told me the check was gone. (Oh, I was one of the earliest verified users, too). I was thrilled. I didn’t want anyone to think I gave that bozo my money.

Then the same person told me the check was back, shortly after I think all decent people had concluded that blue check = red flag (or red hat). So I signed back into my account and updated my bio to make sure nobody ever thinks I gave that dumbass any of my money.

I know I’m not alone. That check mark is now toxic, and I’m not the only longtime verified user who doesn’t want anything to do with it. I wonder if someone more famous than me, with more at stake, makes noise about the implied endorsement  / affiliation the blue check now carries with it, and the brand damage that comes with it?

#fuck elon musk #blue check = red hat = white hood

[despazito]

“omg #blocktheblue was the 4th most trending tag on twitter before it got disappeared off the trending page!!!” what if i told you this level of algorithmic censorship and manipulation happens every day only by much more competent actors who don’t draw attention to themselves like narcissistic toddlers so you don’t notice