November: True madness

Musk really made up for those more relaxed summer months in November, when his grip on the internet made it start to fissure.

“The latest in a seemingly never-ending list of dire consequences for Twitter users in the wake of Elon Musk’s purchase is a very predictable one: after overhauling the site’s verification system, a flood of fake—and yet still ‘verified’—accounts have begun using the platform to fuck with people,” Luke Plunkett reported on November 9. Because of Musk’s insistence to democratize the infamous blue check through a monthly $8 subscription (now suspended), Mario seemed to flip people off directly from the (fake) official Nintendo account and (fake) official George Bush reminded everyone that he loves bombing Iraq

“The internet-wide shorthand for a trusted account—you’ll find blue ticks everywhere from Instagram to Depop—is now almost worthless on Twitter,” Plunkett wrote.

Also, Twitter got rid of about half its 7,500 workers, and now it’s held together by a couple of curly fries and crossed fingers

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