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[–] n3m37h@lemmy.world 109 points 1 year ago

Ah our hero the Free Speech Absolutist, unless it is something he disagrees with. Fucking man child

[–] alienanimals@lemmy.world 47 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Literally every single day we have idiots doing Musk’s PR work for free.

Downvote Musk spam. The billionaire doesn’t need your help ensuring his businesses stay in the 24 hour news cycle.

[–] Lemmylaugh@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

I hope at least that the kids these days are not signed up with twitter. It’s too late for the older generations

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago

To a request for comment, X only sent Ars an auto-response, saying, "Busy now, please check back later." (To be fair, in this case "check back later" is a good summary of what happened.)

Lol

[–] sbv@sh.itjust.works 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is apparently an existing policy from Twitter, as The Intercept discovered after they posted their article:

This article was updated to include information about a Twitter policy to temporarily remove checkmarks from verified accounts that change their profile pictures. Twitter offered only an auto-response to The Intercept’s request for comment ahead of publication. The article was previously updated to note that Twitter restored UAW’s Twitter verification after publication.

Musk is an asshat, but it sounds like this is existing Twitter policy.

[–] cdf12345@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

That was an original policy when the check was only for verified accounts. It was to get ahead of a hacked , verified account.

It shouldn’t matter for the suckers paying $7 a month.

I’m not sure which group the UAW account fell into.

[–] meldroc@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

Did Elon have his pubic hair grafted to his chin?

[–] twistypencil@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

This sounds like it was an automated process, and not some late night musk petty retaliation.