As Twitter continues to combust proper earlier than our very eyes, we’re always questioning if every resolution made by new(ish) CEO Elon Musk can be his most pathetic transfer but.
Monday noticed him change Twitter’s desktop brand to the traditional Doge meme (apparently getting the concept from one other social media consumer a 12 months in the past), and final month he determined to activate an auto reply on Twitter’s official press e-mail to ship again a poop emoji.
Though when you thought all of that was pathetic, it seems Musk has gone one additional – by reportedly eradicating the ‘w’ from Twitter to spell… nicely, you understand precisely what it spells.
Apparently, Musk set up a poll in April last year – since deleted from his account – whereby he requested his followers if he ought to “delete the w in Twitter”.
The two choices had been ‘yes’ and ‘of course’, when you had been questioning whether or not Musk was really being critical about one thing for as soon as.
Well it appears the Tesla founder has adopted by means of on his intention to behave like a 12-year-old, as William LeGate – CEO of the US pillow and mattress firm Pillow Fight – identified a change to the sign at the social media firm’s San Francisco headquarters.
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He tweeted on Thursday: “Elon Musk, in a remarkable show of maturity, has removed the ‘w’ from Twitter’s logo outside their San Francisco HQ. The company now reads as ‘T**ter’.”
Sure sufficient, hooked up to the submit was a photograph of the @twitter sign exterior the constructing, with the letter ‘w’ poorly lined over to spell the childish various.
Following the picture being shared on-line, many individuals weren’t seeing the humorous aspect – and rightly so. Instead, many issued the similar response:
As if that wasn’t sufficient, Thursday additionally noticed the firm’s ‘Twitter Verified’ account mass unfollow everybody – particularly the ‘legacy’ blue tick accounts the profile had routinely adopted once they had been verified.
The transfer got here amid ongoing confusion as to what precisely will occur to customers who had been verified earlier than Musk opened up the tick to anybody – that’s, anybody who obtained a blue tick as a result of they had been a “notable” particular person corresponding to a celeb.
Now, anybody prepared to shell out at the very least $8 a month (or at the very least £9.60 in the UK) may be ‘verified’ on Twitter, ruining the complete unique level of verification – to scale back impersonation – in the first place.
Late final month, Twitter stated it will be eradicating ticks from ‘legacy’ verified accounts from 1 April – sure, from April Fool’s Day.
This didn’t occur, and as an alternative, not lengthy after the verification was meant to be eliminated, tapping or clicking a blue tick on any account on the cellular app now comes up with a message that “this account is verified because it’s subscribed to Twitter Blue or is a legacy verified account”.
Just to make issues much more complicated, after all.
At this level, Twitter Verified’s mass unfollow spree has been branded “petty” by many Twitter customers:
It shouldn’t be identified whether or not the @verified account can be deactivated, solely comply with Blue subscribers, or simply lie dormant for the time being.
Fun.
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