Musk has been vocal about his dislike for the legacy verification system, calling it “bullshit,” “corrupt,” and a “lords & peasants system.” Journalists on the platform were able to be verified almost by default regardless of the size of their following or readership, which appears not to have been sitting right with Musk’s antagonistic relationship with the media.
The blue checkmark completely ceased being an identity verification when Milo Yiannopoulos was stripped of his. From that moment on, it was clear to everyone that it was a mark of corporate approved social status.
Not just removing the legacy blue ticks. If you don't have an account, you've lost a lot of features that are now behind a registration wall. Nitter is mostly broken now as a result.
I don't know. There was an update made two hours ago to the main code but I haven't tested it yet. I can still access individual accounts and posts for now through the instances.
Elon or his successor will eventually put everything on Twitter behind a paywall. More and more people are abandoning the concept that if you want a financially viable service, it can no longer be funded by the advertising, voluntary donation or voluntary subscription model but only the mandatory subscription one. It is where the winds of change are blowing (I've noted content creators are now moving toward a paywalled website of content they control and charge for whether it's Nebula or Publica) but it does risk making what is currently free or low cost prohibitively expensive for consumers in the same way satellite and cable TV went.
To us, it's funny, but to them, it's a deep personal insult that their clear superiority over the new serfs is no longer recognized.
Good. I hope it causes irreparable harm to their feelings.
The Verge are corrupt scum.
An antagonistic relationship with the media is the minimum of what they deserve.
I mean, the feeling is probably mutual. They just cannot stop throthing at their mouths for anything involving musk.
The blue checkmark completely ceased being an identity verification when Milo Yiannopoulos was stripped of his. From that moment on, it was clear to everyone that it was a mark of corporate approved social status.
Not just removing the legacy blue ticks. If you don't have an account, you've lost a lot of features that are now behind a registration wall. Nitter is mostly broken now as a result.
Can't you just run Nitter's crawler through a logged-in no-posts-no-follows account? Not "you" you, their owners, I mean.
I don't know. There was an update made two hours ago to the main code but I haven't tested it yet. I can still access individual accounts and posts for now through the instances.
Elon or his successor will eventually put everything on Twitter behind a paywall. More and more people are abandoning the concept that if you want a financially viable service, it can no longer be funded by the advertising, voluntary donation or voluntary subscription model but only the mandatory subscription one. It is where the winds of change are blowing (I've noted content creators are now moving toward a paywalled website of content they control and charge for whether it's Nebula or Publica) but it does risk making what is currently free or low cost prohibitively expensive for consumers in the same way satellite and cable TV went.