Elon Musk's obsession with blue checks is a proven issue.
Summary by NewsWall Apr 10 23
- Musk promotes it as a status symbol.
- As a result, Twitter is desperate for revenue.
- This puts a lot of pressure on Twitter Blue, the company's paid subscription service, to make money.
- Musk is aware of this on some level, as it appears that Twitter is working on ways to hide the checkmark.
- Because humans can make status symbols out of anything, this silly checkmark eventually came to be seen as a status symbol.
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"Our landlord at SF HQ says we're legally required to keep sign as Twitter & cannot remove 'w', so we painted it background color ... Show more
Elon Musk painted over W in Twitter's name at its San Francisco HQ: Musk posted a photo of the Twitter sign outside the company's San Francisco headquarters that ...
businessinsider.com/elon-musk-painted-over-w-twitter-sign-san-francisco-hq-2023-4
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Elon Musk Doubles Down on ‘Titter’ Sign After Landlord’s Complaint: The billionaire troll has apparently painted over the “w” on his company’s office.
thedailybeast.com/elon-musk-doubles-down-on-titter-sign-after-landlords-complaint
Work From the Office, Get Laid Off at Home: McDonald’s temporarily closed its corporate offices this week so it could lay off workers virtually ...
nytimes.com/2023/04/08/business/dealbook/work-from-the-office-get-laid-off-at-home.html
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"Our landlord at SF HQ says we're legally required to keep sign as Twitter & cannot remove 'w', so we painted it background color ... Show more
Elon Musk painted over W in Twitter's name at its San Francisco HQ: Musk posted a photo of the Twitter sign outside the company's San Francisco headquarters that ...
businessinsider.com/elon-musk-painted-over-w-twitter-sign-san-francisco-hq-2023-4
Paid articlePaid Elon Musk Doubles Down on ‘Titter’ Sign After Landlord’s Complaint: The billionaire troll has apparently painted over the “w” on his company’s office.
thedailybeast.com/elon-musk-doubles-down-on-titter-sign-after-landlords-complaint
Work From the Office, Get Laid Off at Home: McDonald’s temporarily closed its corporate offices this week so it could lay off workers virtually ...
nytimes.com/2023/04/08/business/dealbook/work-from-the-office-get-laid-off-at-home.html
Substack CEO Chris Best Says ‘None’ of Elon Musk’s Claims Are True: Twitter CEO Elon Musk and Substack CEO Chris Best go to war online, with Best writing ...
thedailybeast.com/substack-ceo-chris-best-says-none-of-elon-musks-claims-are-true
Ex-Google Product Manager Reveals the Ugly Truth About Elon Musk's Twitter: This doesn't bode well for Musk's status as a "free speech" crusader.
thestreet.com/social-media/ex-google-product-manager-reveals-the-ugly-truth-about-elon-musks-twitter
"Titter" instead of "Twitter": Elon Musk has the "w" in the company's logo painted over
spiegel.de/netzwelt/apps/titter-statt-twitter-elon-musk-laesst-das-w-im-firmenschriftzug-uebermalen-a-b309473a-6189-4519-8def-61f5a5e3d2c5
Steve Bannon Issues Stark Warning About Elon Musk: Bannon made multiple posts concerning Musk's financial connections to China.
newsweek.com/steve-bannon-issues-stark-warning-about-elon-musk-1793312
Elon Musk: Remaking Twitter in his own image: Why the blue checkmark has lost its value
theweek.com/elon-musk/1022461/elon-musk-remaking-twitter-in-his-own-image
Exclusive: Elon Musk plans China visit, seeks meeting with premier: Tesla (TSLA.O) Chief Executive Elon Musk is making plans to visit China as early as April and ...
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Musk's feud with the media takes a toll on Twitter: Twitter's "free speech"-touting owner is using the service to fight his own battles with ...
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Steve Bannon, who has ties to China, says Elon Musk kowtows to Beijing: Bannon — who is known to have ties to Guo Wengui, an indicted Chinese billionaire — ...
businessinsider.com/steve-bannon-indicted-chinese-billionaire-ties-elon-musk-beijing-2023-4
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Twitter Builds a Wall: Elon Musk’s Twitter, by spiking Substack and attempting to cajole users and organizations into paying for verification ...
nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/04/twitter-builds-a-wall-substack.html
Elon Musk's Twitter is recommending Kremlin accounts to users: report: The Telegraph created a new account and found it was being recommended Vladimir Putin's ...
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Elon Musk starts following Narendra Modi on Twitter, users wonder if Teslas India days lie ahead
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Australia Is Quitting Coal in Record Time Thanks to Tesla: Elon Musk helped accelerate a transformation of the country’s electricity grid to replace fossil fuels ...
bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-04-04/how-tesla-tsla-elon-musk-are-helping-australia-quit-coal-power
Elon Musk Covers Up "W" In Twitter Sign Outside Headquarters. He Says...
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Musk's Twitter 'perpetuating racism,' says McDonald's exec: report: A email chain obtained by Semafor showed some executives at big advertisers are skeptical ...
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Elon Musk's latest move: Twitter becomes Titter: First the dog, now the W: Our author has an inkling of what the changes on Twitter are all about ...
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Musk won't ban Russian officials like Medvedev from tweeting about Ukraine
pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/04/10/7397190/
Elon Musk has painted over the letter "w" at Twitter headquarters - the sign now reads "Titter"
businessinsider.de/wirtschaft/titter-statt-twitter-musk-uebermalt-schild-am-twitter-hauptquartier/
Blog platform “Substack”: Musk again has links of the Twitter competition blocked
tagesspiegel.de/wirtschaft/blog-plattform-substack-twitter-blockiert-erneut-links-der-konkurrenz-9633155.html
Elon Musk says he’s ‘dumb way more often than I’d like to be’ : The Tesla CEO waded into a debate about his strategies and agreed with a comment that he can ...
fortune.com/2023/04/08/elon-musk-says-he-is-often-dumb-tesla-twitter-leadership/
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Elon Musk's lawyer for Twitter is done with him: Negotiations between Twitter and the Federal Trade Commission do not appear to be going well after the FTC ...
thenews.com.pk/latest/1058572-elon-musks-lawyer-for-twitter-is-done-with-him
Elon Musk’s obsession with blue checks is a verified problem: The verification mark originally was meant as a service. Musk is selling it as a status symbol ...
theverge.com/2023/4/4/23668722/elon-musk-twitter-blue-checkmark-verified
Twitter lawyer quits as Musk’s legal woes expand, report says: Twitter is now facing probes from the FTC and German authorities.
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/04/twitter-lawyer-quits-as-musks-legal-woes-expand-report-says/
Doge’s limited-run as face of Twitter comes to an end as Elon Musk brings blue bird back
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New excitement around Twitter: Musk blocks links to rival platform: Once again, Twitter is trying to make it more difficult for its users to interact with a ...
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Tesla names China head Tom Zhu as senior vice president: Tom Zhu’s promotion at Tesla comes amid speculation that he could take over from Elon Musk as the ...
technode.com/2023/04/07/tesla-names-china-head-tom-zhu-as-senior-vice-president/
Substack CEO pushes back at Elon, says Twitter situation is “very frustrating”: Substack CEO Chris Best fires back at Elon Musk claiming the company violated ...
theverge.com/2023/4/8/23675801/substack-ceo-pushes-back-at-elon-says-twitter-situation-is-very-frustrating
Twitter CEO Elon Musk has the "w" dropped from the company logo: In an unprecedented act of intellectual maturity, one of the world's richest people has stood up ...
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Blocking Substack: Elon Musk hampers Twitter competitor again - Golem.de.: Links to newsletter service Substack can now only be posted with restrictions ...
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Elon Musk's Twitter Wrongly Labels BBC Account "Government Funded": Twitter has wrongly labelled the BBC as being "government funded" on its official ...
deadline.com/2023/04/elon-musk-twitter-labels-bbc-government-funded-1235320637/
Twitter to show 50% less ads with better visibility to Blue subscribers: In order to woo more users, Elon Musk-run Twitter will now show at least 50 per cent ...
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Twitter’s Senior Lawyer Resigns from Post Amidst Elon Musk’s Growing Legal Battles, Problems
techtimes.com/articles/290143/20230407/twitter-s-senior-lawyer-resigns-post-amidst-elon-musk-growing.htm
Welcome to open source, Elon. Your Twitter code just got a CVE for shadow ban bug
theregister.com/2023/04/07/twitter_code_cve_substack/
Elon Musk family tree: Secret twins, siblings, other kids, ex-wives: Elon Musk has nine kids and a wild life, but he's not the only member of his family who ...
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Elon Musk says he's 'dumb way more often than I'd like to be' in Twitter debate: The world's second-richest person reacted to Twitter users discussing his ...
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Musk puts $14 trillion price tag on sticking by fossil fuels - Autoblog: Musk says it would cost the world $4 trillion more to stick with fossil fuels than it ...
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