What's Going to Happen With Twitter?

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I feel like the part of it that I still need to see how it's going to play out, but has me more concerned than the verification thing. Like certainly there's the opportunity there for impersonation and things like that. And maybe that will be an issue. But then you have people on the right and his kind of cult getting their posts kind of further boosted because they're buying into this service. He wants the people who like him who are going to pay for this service to kind of rise to the top is this idea of dimensions from someone who gets like thousands of people replying to every post that he posts rather than the average user experience.

Paris Marx is joined by Hussein Kesvani to discuss the mess of Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover, the problem with his solution to blue check privilege, and what we should learn from how he posts.

Hussein Kesvani is a journalist and the co-host of Trashfuture and Ten Thousand Posts. Follow Hussein on Twitter at @hkesvani.

Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Follow the podcast (@techwontsaveus) and host Paris Marx (@parismarx) on Twitter, and support the show on Patreon.

The podcast is produced by Eric Wickham and part of the Harbinger Media Network.

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Paris wrote about Elon Musk’s new plan to allow users to pay $8 to get a blue check, priority on their posts, and other features as part of an updated Twitter Blue.
Private texts revealed from the Delaware court showed the rich and powerful groveling to Elon Musk.
A long list of companies have stopped advertising on Twitter after Musk’s takeover. He blamed it on activists.
Roko’s Basilisk brought Elon Musk and Grimes together.
Elon Musk has decreed that people making fun of him by impersonating him on Twitter will be banned.

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