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brucethemoose@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• Famko@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I think other people can buy the blue checkmark for you on twitter, though my information may be faulty.

  In any case, just cause he gave money to that ass wipe Elon doesn’t mean that his analogy isn’t valid, just a little “leopards ate my face” kinda deal.

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  • brucethemoose@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Well, he tweets many times a day, many posts like this just farming for engagement:

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    …Feels pretty Tech Bro to me. I don’t think this is a case of “I have no choice but to use Twitter.”

    In fact, I’d wager some of those posts are automated.

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    • justaman123@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I’m kind of with you on this, but even broken clocks

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      • athatet@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Yeah but I don’t pay attention to broken clocks. I throw them out and replace them with working ones.

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    • Famko@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Yeah okay, fair enough, he looks like a moron.

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  • Donkter@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I think twitter also might still give blue check marks to “important” people it’s just available for anyone to buy now

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• Brahvim@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Steal the idea. Paraphrase it and screenshot it as your own! Victorii /s

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• A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Don’t discount the message though. After all we’re interacting with a screenshot of a tweet. It doesn’t make me a fan of this guy.

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  • brucethemoose@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    The messenger matters.

    Would you care about anything I was saying if I was a bot?

    Or a Musk/Theil bootlicker?

    Especially on this topic. Nodding your heads about the loss of the internet to engagement chum on Twitter is the opposite of poetic.

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• helvetpuli@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I’m surprised that nobody else has mentioned how far off the 20 year estimate is.

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• vaionko@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Remember when the “verified” checkmark meant you were verified to be who you claim to be? I do

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• ButteredBread@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  lol

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• SaltySalamander@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  You either do it, or someone else will do it and start impersonating you. People with any kind of public/online presence sorta have to unfortunately.

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  • WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    they can still impersonate you. the checkmark has lost its meaning when everybody has it.

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