Why Elon is Selling The Blue Check Mark

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  • Опубликовано: 24 окт 2024

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  • @DonnaIRL
    @DonnaIRL  Год назад +96

    How would you save twitter?
    UPDATE: Musk has tweeted, “Holding off relaunch of Blue Verified until there is high confidence of stopping impersonation. Will probably use different color check for organizations than individuals”
    Unclear if celebrities and influencers count as organizations,but if the change only applies to companies that are non-personalities he’s probably changing the color so normies don’t sink their stock. If celebs/influencers continue to share the same check mark with subscribers to twitter blue, my theory still holds up. If all of them have a different color, I was wrong and this video aged like milk lol. OH WELL. Free extra video

    • @cyndere
      @cyndere Год назад +5

      In order to encourage free speech (i.e. genuine opinions), I feel like Twitter needs to somehow incentivize civil conversation/debate. Users don't want to participate in free speech if they get bullied/cancelled.
      Something about the current likes & retweets system encourages users to post tweets they know will "perform" well, so users become extreme caricatures of themselves and participate in lots of toxic, us-versus-them behavior.

    • @NadiaSeesIt
      @NadiaSeesIt Год назад

      I would happily watch Twitter crash and burn. It's a collection of the worst parts of humanity and has failed

    • @5555Jacker
      @5555Jacker Год назад +2

      @@cyndere True, but the problem is, how do you incentivize free and genuine speech when Twitter's practically designed for short status updates rather than long discussions? There's little room for civil conversation or debate, given such a short character limit. To try and write something in-depth and thoughtful with all the necessary context is like trying to write a novel with sticky notes. Pretty much the only things you can do are quick and witty comebacks, or linking to an article or picture that goes more in-depth. The factors you mention among others definitely aggravate the platform's uncivility.

    • @cyndere
      @cyndere Год назад +1

      @@5555Jacker yeah, that's my point. They would need to make some changes in the features/functions to encourage more positive behaviors. Idk what specific changes.

    • @blurtam188
      @blurtam188 Год назад

      I wouldn't. Glad to see it burn!!

  • @barabacula6056
    @barabacula6056 Год назад +74

    I don't use twitter, but tumblr had a flock of new users recently (plenty of artists). Tumblr is now also selling verification marks, two at a time. One of my mutuals has eight of them right now

  • @cupidsfavouritecherub9327
    @cupidsfavouritecherub9327 Год назад +123

    Tbh I feel like at this point, twitter has such a notorious reputation that anyone who would be interested in making an account has already made one. The only way for twitter to have any meaningful growth is squeezing more out of the users already on there, or somehow making the app even more addictive

    • @voleibolll
      @voleibolll Год назад +2

      I think twitter's weakness when it comes to new users is how hard it is to get into. Right now I've been using twitter for a while but I still remenber not getting it as a beginner user and am familiar with people that felt the same.

  • @M0VIE
    @M0VIE Год назад +148

    Elon logic: the joke is funny as long as it's not about me.

    • @MiguelGarcia-vj7oo
      @MiguelGarcia-vj7oo Год назад +1

      To be fair that's most people on the planet.......

    • @redbitch3362
      @redbitch3362 Год назад +5

      @@MiguelGarcia-vj7oo well, most people love to hide their bullying by using "dark humor"

  • @trailmixvids
    @trailmixvids Год назад +48

    This was such a strange event for me. Never been a huge twitter fan myself, but it's hard not to be invested in this extreme mishandling of the platform. It's intruiging to see what people will make of this, if Elon Musk can come back from his mistakes, or if people will eventually move to some form of alternative.

  • @JasonBoyce
    @JasonBoyce Год назад +26

    Twitter's content moderation policy pre-Musk was essentially the same as Arby's: if what you're saying makes customers uncomfortable, you will be removed from the space. Now, Musk is going to spend quite a bit of time going, "Oh, so that's why they did that."

  • @theoutsiderjess1869
    @theoutsiderjess1869 Год назад +92

    I just chalked it up to him wanting to burn twitter to the ground after they forced him to buy it

    • @DonnaIRL
      @DonnaIRL  Год назад +60

      I'm too poor to understand this logic

    • @wildlifesuport
      @wildlifesuport Год назад +18

      He is not a victim belive me

    • @sepulcher8263
      @sepulcher8263 Год назад +1

      So he's just dumb.

    • @Narwhal39
      @Narwhal39 Год назад +10

      I can’t find the source or remember the exact verbage but according to a theory on Reddit, filing for bankruptcy may very well be his goal as a means to deal with the debt he inherited from his acquisition of the company

    • @Ebbelwoy
      @Ebbelwoy Год назад +4

      Or maybe he isn't an infallible genius, but someone who is actually able to make mistakes

  • @magnus547
    @magnus547 Год назад +15

    Great commentary on the Twitter situation. I think this story will get more interesting as time passes. The way I see it: "controversy creates cash." Take care Donna!

  • @JaykPuten
    @JaykPuten Год назад +4

    Watching this I'm wondering if I'm just a simple person... I just buy the generic, I don't own a piece of clothing over $20, I don't want to buy a brand knockoff, just cheap $5 shirts($8 if I'm feeling spicy)....
    Or have I *less* likely just transcended the care of what anyone thinks of me in costly clothing, and rather what they think of me as a person..
    I'm a millennial who has had a live journal, myspace...etc... But right now I only have Facebook (that I haven't checked in on this year, not signed in once) and RUclips
    And while RUclips has its problems (esp for those people that cover firearms from a mechanical perspective)
    RUclips has sort of made decent strides to a balance...
    As soon as they get rid of the telegram boys... They are just so annoying
    Love the video, know I've not really covered the original topic...
    But hey, I stay subscribed and comment for the possible algorithm boost

  • @mikethetowns
    @mikethetowns Год назад +3

    4:12 the delivery of those lines was amazing

  • @lanabanana3448
    @lanabanana3448 Год назад +8

    the blue checkmark doesnt mean anything anymore now

  • @cliftonsargent1572
    @cliftonsargent1572 Год назад +7

    I’ve never had twitter so from an out side perspective I’m enjoying watching this awful app burn. I think people losing money cause of false twits is BS

  • @kseni_vely
    @kseni_vely Год назад +2

    I have an account, but I've basically never've used it. At first because I couldn't choose who to follow and where to comment, I love a LOT of stuff that if not opposed is definitely kinda separated on some extremes. So then came the moment I wanted to participate when exciting things were happening, but I've seen the toxicity and just left. In real life I may be an incendiary type of character, I argue a lot with people who I think deserve a chance to speak but also an opportunity to learn (yeah, yeah, I'm idealistic and NEED for justice to prevail) So I felt like engaging with people online who maybe were just trolls and nothing would ever come from it wasn't a worthwhile task 🙋🏼‍♀️

  • @ShootingStars618
    @ShootingStars618 Год назад +2

    I think another thing we can gleam from this is just how out of touch the top percent 0.0001% is with the world and what people want from a social media. In what world was "buy this special mark" meant for people to distinct a online presence suppose to be capitalized.
    Not even mentioning the other shit things Elon has been doing to employees and the direction of the application. I loveee the combination of twitter users making Elon eat his cake too by impersonating people, he get to enjoy the spoils of war persay.

  • @NaudVanDalen
    @NaudVanDalen Год назад +2

    4:18 It was merely a heated gaming moment.

  • @LumeanTV
    @LumeanTV Год назад +1

    The selling of a brand name or tapping into people's desire for status is interesting, to me,, and reminds me of earlier in the week when my mother bought a new Michael Cores purse. I asked her why she liked MC when she's just paying for the name alone, and twice as much as she would another purse not on brand, but she didn't give much else than a simple, "I like them." She likes the name. And probably, the status it gives her subtly.

  • @futuristicgirl14
    @futuristicgirl14 Год назад +3

    He read The Sneetches by Dr Seuss and really ran with it

  • @thatoneplanet
    @thatoneplanet Год назад +6

    the way u read Joe Biden's tweet made me laugh so hard

  • @X150t
    @X150t Год назад +5

    4:11 never thought I'd hear Donna say something like that 😂

    • @DonnaIRL
      @DonnaIRL  Год назад +3

      “Joe Biden” said that not me

  • @stefaniadiamondcut
    @stefaniadiamondcut Год назад +10

    Unfortunately free speech isn't free, bad companies don't want people to hear the truth. Funny Nestle was like fk it just tell it now

  • @RegalMermaid
    @RegalMermaid Год назад

    Great take Donna 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽you are a bit of an oracle so I look forward to seeing your predictions play out!

  • @claudiochoices
    @claudiochoices Год назад +10

    Imagine if all this was a plan, to make stock go down, buy a lot of stock and Wait to go up again , and is even more rich now. Was the best time to buy

    • @DonnaIRL
      @DonnaIRL  Год назад +2

      Some people do make a lot of money during a recession

    • @burgermind802
      @burgermind802 Год назад +2

      Elon bought twitter. There is no stock.

    • @claudiochoices
      @claudiochoices Год назад

      @@DonnaIRL that's so true, I'm from Portugal, i live in Lisbon, and rents are more expensive than salaries, olive oil is at the same price that r
      Sunflower oil is crazy. I work in tbe restaurant as waiter, and this here was the strongest year since we open 6 years ago, in the 6 places my boss have.
      I wish I knew how the finance world works, and as well o wish to have the money to invest. But we don't learn about finances in Portugal, but i think is the same to every country.
      Thank you for all the videos and insights you give, i love your journalism and Johnny Harris, keep doing, you are doing great.

    • @elbruces
      @elbruces Год назад +1

      Except he already bought the stock at the locked-in inflated price.

  • @PhantomHalf
    @PhantomHalf Год назад +2

    Downside of twitter is that its a fucking cesspool but its MY cesspool.

  • @dragonmansasson5815
    @dragonmansasson5815 Год назад +2

    Hope you feel better soon.

  • @Jus4ya
    @Jus4ya Год назад

    I randomly thought of this channel n had to look for it in my subs

  • @Victoria_Loves_Jesus
    @Victoria_Loves_Jesus Год назад +2

    infant saints? wooden doors?
    ballpoint ? mary phagen?

  • @weird-guy
    @weird-guy Год назад +2

    The problem is that twitter is a niche social media, i have an account but never use it.
    If you look at facebook even tho people say it dying still more than a billions users still use it, instagram is not as popular as a few years ago but still billions use it, tik tok is growing massively and is massively addicting,and also billions of active users.
    Now look at twitter have not even half a billion users, and only 10% of users post something theres no reliance or loyaty to the platform if it dies ´no one even cares´.

    • @EmyN
      @EmyN Год назад

      Well, compared to the other platforms

  • @GabrielaCenturionNeumann
    @GabrielaCenturionNeumann Год назад

    Get well soon!

  • @YeahBoiii-wc5ek
    @YeahBoiii-wc5ek Год назад

    get well soon. Always like the aesthetic of your episodes

  • @ooodatsgottahurt1625
    @ooodatsgottahurt1625 Год назад +1

    This was so informative and well done. Great video 👍

  • @TheSimArchitect
    @TheSimArchitect Год назад +10

    They should charge a verification fee (one time payment) that's enough for them to profit and process your documentation (ID etc). Different verification badges with different prices for regular people or real celebrities / brands with different tiers etc would be convenient as well.

    • @micahcook2408
      @micahcook2408 Год назад +4

      And that's the issue! Bingo! He literally didn't realize why verification is a thing in the first place, or why people who want to make a name for themselves as an upcoming influencer, celebrity/public figure, and/or artist wanted one lmfao Literally it's a showcase of, "this is my real account... this is who I am... this is my brand" .... I remember when verification was a newly created thing and as a teen hoping to someday go through the process thinking it was available for everybody because surprise, surprise, even the non-celebrity person can still get scammed, cat-fished, and/or get their identities stolen too! But nope, you have to prove you are worthy of being verified. So... instead of just enabling these verification protocols for the "plebs"/everybody, he just allows a cheap subscription service with no security checks or ID verification? Okay.... that man sure is a genius ....

    • @TheSimArchitect
      @TheSimArchitect Год назад +1

      @@micahcook2408 Exactly. Charging for it, perhaps substantial amounts if you want better status or if you already have enough organic engagement in the platform AFTER VERIFYING YOU should be the rule on all platforms, plus ad free subscriptions that also adjust our feeds to show what we want instead of what they want us to see.

    • @micahcook2408
      @micahcook2408 Год назад

      @@TheSimArchitect facts!!!!

  • @NadiaSeesIt
    @NadiaSeesIt Год назад +2

    Mario would never do that :( lol

  • @potapotapotapotapotapota
    @potapotapotapotapotapota Год назад +1

    I think if you want to be a verified organisation then you should have to pay a large lump sum of money rather than a subscription. Then that will make it easier for Twitter to distinguish between fakes and real accounts while still making the platform profitable.

  • @JimmySlaughter
    @JimmySlaughter Год назад

    Your restraint to not use Twitter on a regular basis is an admirable quality. Unfortunately, I am addicted.

  • @cupidsfavouritecherub9327
    @cupidsfavouritecherub9327 Год назад +30

    I only use twitter for porn so this drama has been hilarious to watch from the outside

    • @JAMESNOTWELL
      @JAMESNOTWELL Год назад +5

      LMFAO

    • @Doctor-Infinite
      @Doctor-Infinite Год назад +2

      dude SAME!!!

    • @TheShowerofSlime
      @TheShowerofSlime Год назад +7

      Exactly. Twitter replaced Tumblr in that department, so I too am wondering what the hullabaloo is all about

    • @cronx6861
      @cronx6861 Год назад +1

      Twitter has some amazing porn

    • @redpalex
      @redpalex Год назад +3

      Me too man, I like manxman content

  • @congchuatocmay4837
    @congchuatocmay4837 Год назад +1

    He should stick to selling million dollar solutions to 10,000 dollar problems to people with good intentions about the planet and things.
    I personally found twitter to be a thing of autism which perhaps exerted a powerful pull on aspects of elon's mind together with his emerging billionaire's arrogance.
    Some say the situation is a dumster fire but I don't think it was ever anything other than a dumpster filled with do-do.

  • @kamana6435
    @kamana6435 Год назад

    Great content loved your analysis and insight.. thanks

  • @CoreenMontagna
    @CoreenMontagna Год назад +1

    I think it would have worked to sell the verification mark if they actually were selling the same thing that it used to mean, that the name was verified to be the person they said they were, ie no changing your profile name to random things for trolling

  • @zoewheelwright2325
    @zoewheelwright2325 Год назад +1

    cool vid! nice to watch something that goes beyond the fact it was all very funny

  • @lkcdarzadix6216
    @lkcdarzadix6216 Год назад

    selling blue checkmarks is hilarious hahahaha just pure chaos and trolling

  • @someone-gz3fj
    @someone-gz3fj Год назад +1

    Donna, why are you not verified on RUclips? How do I know that you are you?

  • @inferno7289
    @inferno7289 Год назад +1

    I wouldn't save Twitter. It's time to go lol

  • @jennythedancer
    @jennythedancer Год назад

    The irony of Elon Musk's name being on the tweeting less less is rich.

  • @claudiochoices
    @claudiochoices Год назад

    Love your new set

  • @AlpineTheHusky
    @AlpineTheHusky Год назад +1

    Twitter did it before too. Just around $15k instead of 8$

    • @elbruces
      @elbruces Год назад

      No they didn't.

    • @AlpineTheHusky
      @AlpineTheHusky Год назад +1

      @@elbruces Go do some research and come back

    • @elbruces
      @elbruces Год назад

      @@AlpineTheHusky
      Cite your research or shut up.
      I'm not going to do your homework for you.

    • @AlpineTheHusky
      @AlpineTheHusky Год назад

      @@elbruces Oh yeah right. Your generation doesnt do research. Well guess Ill stop here then since you would only believe someone with blue hair

  • @heyhorinshi
    @heyhorinshi Год назад

    Is simple if your not paying you are the product. If you are paying you are buying the product/service, he wants it to be freer at least so it seems obvious things can’t go on how it is Twitter has been going down they wouldn’t sell if that wants the case

  • @TahtahmesDiary
    @TahtahmesDiary Год назад

    Maybe if anyone other than Musk had bought it, I think people might have donated to the “town square”, but I can’t see people just handing a billionaire money at this point.

  • @enmity9383
    @enmity9383 Год назад

    THIS IS JABOUKIE'S TIME

  • @fennwenn3317
    @fennwenn3317 Год назад +1

    Personally, and this is very biased, I would not save twitter. The way the algorithm works plus the inability to remove the "trending" tab from view is nothing but a drain on mental health and creativity. Tumblr is the closest site to being possibly maybe kinda almost mentally healthy, and even that takes careful following, liberal blocking, and the wonderful ability to keep my dash chronological and filled only with folks I like and have vetted. Social media is not designed for human happiness. Algorithms are ESPECIALLY not designed for happiness. They are designed for rage clicks.

  • @fruitshopowner2505
    @fruitshopowner2505 Год назад +1

    man great video but its weeks late lol

  • @MinhNguyen-cs1ll
    @MinhNguyen-cs1ll Год назад +1

    that was a fun video to watch!
    I was thinking, and this is only a conjecture, i do not have an real reason to think this other than the FEELING elon gives me.
    Elon is a very quirky intellectual with a bit of an ego, atleast thats how he looks like in media. And theres no shortage of incentive for elon to push that narrative, possible reasons include : that really is just how he is and hes just vibing as himself, It boosts his ego or percepetion of himself when others validate it, its great marketing. While not all physics majors were like this, its a little too easy to have an undergraduate physics culture to promote the idea of a "quirky individual" i speak as a physics student myself. I can see this pplaying some part.
    For whatever reason, i conjecture some of ELons big moves is done in purpose to promote the idea of his wierdness and willingness to put forth huge effort or make big things happen on what seems to be a whim. Almost a god like potrayal of a person imo. if we take the boring company. Sure LA traffic sucks, and the idea of making a underground tunnel out of now where is both funny and a lot of work. But in examnation, it feels more like a worse subway system. It seemed less like an actual solution to a real problem, and more like a place to for elon to show he can do something that big on a whim.
    While i believe his moves with twitter has genuinine elements of trying for free speech. It seems more like Elon said on a whim to buy it. In usual fashion, Elon makes moves to buy twitter, so that he can casualy exert his power. However did it make any sense to buy twitter? I did not think twitter to be a business elon is particular passionate about.( i dont use it so maybe im wrong), leaving the platform seems to be the more pracitcal choice. Only reason to buy twitter is for the hell of it, to show that he could. I suspect that he knows it was kind of a bad business move to buy something he never needed to, but keeps pushing so it does not appear that he was "defeated". I'm not really sure, because if Elon just drafted a better business model or something for twitter for fun and post it. It would take effort, he would look very smart, kind of rub it in the face of twitter, and have not spent a penny.
    I would like to make clear i think its cool to do things on a whim, i do it all the time. But Elons always seem to border on excess and misled expansion. Our first ideas are sometimes not our best ideas, and thats okay, we can always make more ideas. But some of, not all, of elons ventures seem like first ideas to me.

    • @raaaaaaarr
      @raaaaaaarr Год назад +1

      Great analysis. It's cool to do things on a whim, but not when it's a public showing of power for the sake of stroking one's ego. Imo

  • @leatherDarkhorse
    @leatherDarkhorse Год назад

    emusk: blue tick is to get rid of troll & bots
    in reality: trolls & bots get more powerful
    LOL

  • @eegleweege
    @eegleweege Год назад +1

    That is a disturbing thumbnail

  • @roseinfinityy
    @roseinfinityy Год назад

    I like how he's selling a service to verify it's customers, then doesn't even bother verifying them... I used to like Elon musk. What happened??

  • @sunofapeach
    @sunofapeach Год назад

    i'm convinced Musk wants to destroy that avenue of communication for political reasons, it's an election year after all.

  • @0SPACE0BAR0
    @0SPACE0BAR0 Год назад +1

    Elon’s a silly billy

  • @red4666
    @red4666 Год назад

    cause he needs to make money somehow - there. fixed it for you in 10 seconds.

  • @adoseofbeauty6443
    @adoseofbeauty6443 Год назад

    Good video, I had not known how few people regularly use Twitter.
    The next presidential election should cause more people to use the site.
    But is it just me or is Trump no longer as attention holding as he use to be?
    Kanye is reaching that point to.
    "Drama" just gets tiresome after a while.

  • @DaBunne
    @DaBunne Год назад

    I hope Elon watches this :)

  • @Jplummer-y3j
    @Jplummer-y3j Год назад

    What are you talking about Twitter is pretty awesome right now

  • @contentprince
    @contentprince Год назад

    next video Andrew Tate vs social media and is rumble his own platform !!!

  • @juliozavala5865
    @juliozavala5865 Год назад

    How do you use Twitter

    • @DonnaIRL
      @DonnaIRL  Год назад +2

      To see if everyone else felt that earthquake

  • @Ida608
    @Ida608 Год назад +2

    Hello

  • @someonesomewhere3505
    @someonesomewhere3505 Год назад

    2:30

  • @nufh
    @nufh Год назад

    I only have 100 follower, so it doesn't bother me much.

  • @randomdaydreamer9970
    @randomdaydreamer9970 Год назад

    I don't think he knows what he's doing. I don't think he ever did, just kinda got lucky his whole life and now his idiocy is finally starting to become more well known to the public. At this point I can't even take anyone defending him seriously, they're just pointing at the most atrocious display of intellect imaginable and going "don't worry guys, he's actually had a 1000 iq big brain plan all along" Okay... sure?

  • @bltotrs92
    @bltotrs92 Год назад

    blue check mark wasnt fairly given out before, why do ppl have problem with this now

  • @lanabanana3448
    @lanabanana3448 Год назад

    Hettyyy

  • @koyadream
    @koyadream Год назад

    in my theory user name and account name should be the same and user name should and must be different from one account to another so that we can easily identify them so that easy solution 🤔🤯🤯

  • @statego
    @statego Год назад +2

    first

  • @Booer
    @Booer Год назад

    havnt watched it but your wrong- and im not even right wing

    • @DonnaIRL
      @DonnaIRL  Год назад +1

      I'm lost in why that would make you right wing and it's okay to disagree with me.

  • @MiroslavGlavic
    @MiroslavGlavic Год назад

    you are negatively complaining about negative complains.
    Stop following negative people.

    • @NadiaSeesIt
      @NadiaSeesIt Год назад

      Twitter breeds negativity and elitist nonsense - I hope it crashed and burns

    • @MiroslavGlavic
      @MiroslavGlavic Год назад +1

      @@NadiaSeesIt no it does not. Nothing wrong with Elitism. You are just pissed at people who are financially sucessful.

    • @DonnaIRL
      @DonnaIRL  Год назад +3

      ​@@MiroslavGlavic "Stop following negative people" I just said I don't visit twitter often and explained the reasoning as to why.

  • @tostupidforname
    @tostupidforname Год назад

    This is by far the smartest thing i have seen about this topic. Really smart points