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>So if [insert celebrity here] decides not to pay, I can now pay $20 to officially impersonate them as backed by Twitter. Do you have the necessary documentation to prove this identity? Aren't you concerned with violating federal laws?
Do we know for sure they still have to prove they are who they claim?
Do they not already?
I think this is smart. The blue checkmark is in practice just a symbol of vanity. That you're a genuine somebody, worthy of extra verification. There are so many self-important people in life and on social media that think they are in a class above everybody else, I bet a large percentage of these not noteworthy but need to be verified people will happily pay for it.
Absolutely. But if anyone who pays $20/month can get a blue checkmark, it is no longer the status symbol you describe and its appeal totally disappears.
Even with the hiring freezes across Silicon Valley, good engineers will right now be trying to leave Twitter in droves. The stress of all this will have an additive effect, and make a salary cut more bearable if they have to change jobs. Instagram has about 20,000 employees. Twitter has about 7,500. How many of those can it lose before advertisers start leaving in droves? At that point, whatever monetisation strategy…
What's to say there isn't just as many, equally capable people looking for a job there? They'll be fine. Most people are going no where and those that leave will be replaced immediately.
Plus, interviewing takes engineering time, since you need existing engineers to conduct those interviews. Engineers who are being asked to "show their work" won't want to take time away to interview their replacements.
I'm a twitter "heavy user" - logging in daily and tweeting > 4x per week. Users like me make up 10% of users, but 90% of tweets. I've been a heavy user X 15 years and I'm still not a blue check. I perceive no benefit in being verified and I doubt being verified would have/will change my experience as a user. If they verified me for FREE I wouldn't care. $20/month to be verified on a site controlled by a maniac in the…
Verification isn’t/wasn’t (supposed to be) about how often you used the platform. It was so journalists and celebrities and such could be identified and you could tell if you were intersecting with the genuine article or a fake account impersonating them. 90 days to sign up before people lose their check mark. So 90 days until the clones come out. I’m sure this has nothing to do with the MASSIVE amount of debt Twitte…
It wasn’t, but it is now.
> Also? Who comes up with a feature and gives the programmers a very short deadline with a threat to fire them if they can’t make it?
Someone who wants to do layoffs, but characterize them as firings for failure to meet performance expectations.
Might as well have just fired them. There’s no way a feature like that can get released in most companies on that timeline, even without the scale issues.
What? Even in a bloated, red-tape bureaucratic hellhole, that's maybe a few engineer-weeks at absolute most. Wire up a payment processor, plug into whatever api sets the blue checkmark, have some expiration logic, done.
Might as well have just fired them. There’s no way a feature like that can get released in most companies on that timeline, even without the scale issues.
"Employees working on the project were told on Sunday that they need to meet a deadline of November 7th to launch the feature or they will be fired." Well I hope the meme that elon is some kind of benevolent and inspiring leader is truly dead and buried.
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This style of management of software/product teams fills me full of confidence on using autopilot.
Inverted, being an owner/user of autopilot makes me confident in the outcome of this new software endeavor.
Twitter wedged under a sideways parked semi trailer in 3.. 2..
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But we know Elon plans to slim staff down a lot; that this is a true change in management. Given that, it's not too surprising to see him draw some lines with ugly consequences on the wrong side of them since he's already said, in effect, that he doesn't need most of these engineers for the product he's planning. Twitter is not a healthy product or work culture from what I can gather; and large changes in personnel,…
it seems like you are expending a lot of effort looking for reasons he isnt just basically a bad / clueless boss in this case. its much more likely he is just blowing it.