Sunday Night Elmo Watch

Ideally when you buy business for billions more than it is worth you don't operate it in such a way that most of the speculation is about how you are intentionally destroying it.

— Schooley (@Rschooley) April 2, 2023

did anyone “legacy verified” actually lose their blue check today?

— Best of Dying Twiter (@bestofdyingtwit) April 1, 2023

Elon Musk quickly deleted a tweet saying legacy verified accounts would not lose their checkmarks on April 1 as he previously said, won’t happen for another “few weeks”

however, if they specifically say they won’t pay for Twitter Blue, then Twitter will remove their checkmark pic.twitter.com/HiiWwf30tb

— Matt Binder (@MattBinder) April 2, 2023

No one has any idea why the delay....

Elon Musk, in a Twitter space, asks for engineers outside of Twitter to consider working for free to improve Twitter’s code base as an act of goodwill

— LeGate🤠 (@williamlegate) April 1, 2023

Please identify the problems with our website for free because i fired all the people who used to do that pic.twitter.com/ZUOcnZrVqP

— . (@Eve6) March 31, 2023

Or maybe this is why:

lollll pic.twitter.com/9zPxoaaOtw

— Best of Dying Twiter (@bestofdyingtwit) April 2, 2023

Although this seems more likely:

Ok, things are getting weird. pic.twitter.com/gkNm88gRUW

— Schooley (@Rschooley) April 2, 2023

"Getting"?

One account has lost its verification badge: NYT, for saying it wasn’t going to pay for it pic.twitter.com/FdCdN0YUE9

— Ken Klippenstein (@kenklippenstein) April 2, 2023

I wonder if King James has lost his?

Welp guess my blue ✔️ will be gone soon cause if you know me I ain’t paying the 5. 🤷🏾‍♂️

— LeBron James (@KingJames) March 31, 2023

Twitter's algorithm is specifically tracking tweet metrics for four groups:
- power users
- republicans
- democrats
and...
- elon musk pic.twitter.com/dYGxysbwbI

— Matt Binder (@MattBinder) March 31, 2023

And nope, no liability here:

NEW: Twitter hasn’t paid thousands of dollars in charitable donations that employees made in 2022, around the time of the acquisition. The money was taken out of employee paychecks but never reached the organizations. Benevity, the third-party platform that is used to facilitate…

— Zoë Schiffer (@ZoeSchiffer) March 31, 2023

Also:

So again, I have a lot of questions about the timing of the purchase of Twitter https://t.co/pusUtA8osN

— Molly McKew (@MollyMcKew) April 1, 2023

(UN)FAIR AND (IM)BALANCED!

pic.twitter.com/lVcJ4M0xSE

— Best of Dying Twiter (@bestofdyingtwit) March 31, 2023

Sounds like he's taking his own advice.