behemoth, a week and a half after conducting one of the largest tech layoffs in 2022, has finally launched its $8 verification feature — seemingly only heeding the warning that the feature will be exploited for impersonation and misinformation hours after it launched.
It's hard to see any changes to Twitter without thinking about what Musk said during his Twitter Spaces Wednesday morning:"We’re aspirationally not dumb but we’ll do dumb things," he said."If we do not try bold moves, then how will we make great improvements?"Twitter privacy heads abruptly flee the siteMore high-level Twitter executives are ditching the site — and, according to one Twitter lawyer, it’s a departure that could cost Elon Musk billions.
“I anticipate that all of you will de pressured by management into pushing out changes that will likely lead to major incidents,” the anonymous lawyer warned in a Slack message to Twitter employees,The lawyer also speculated that the FTC will fine Twitter “BILLIONS of dollars” for their fast and loose approach to privacy.Twitter changes paid-verification rules after blue-check deception
Yeah, yeah. The sky is falling. Twitter will be just fine.