stopped using Twitter on April 12 after the label “State-Affiliated Media” was added to its account, a move apparently ordered by Musk himself. The label was later changed to “government funded,” which is also inaccurate.
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up that rocket explosion, joking after playing a clip that it was “the most expensive penis overcompensation in history.”“The starship was in the air for about four minutes. Until multiple engines went out, and it blew up,” Kimmel continued. “Which, for some reason elicited a big round of applause from the company.”Kimmel mocked the unusual euphemism SpaceX used to describe the explosion — “rapid unscheduled disassembly” — joking that it was “the same thing that happened to Twitter when Elon Musk took over.”“I have to hand it to them.
‘Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly’ is one hell of a way to describe your rocket blowing up. That’s up there with ‘wardrobe malfunction’ and ‘conscious uncoupling.’ But that disassembly – cost SpaceX three billion dollars. You could defame four different voting machine companies for that much money,” Kimmel said.
Then he moved on to what happened at Twitter.“Today was the great de-checkening on Twitter today. Basically, if you didn’t sign up for Elon’s eight bucks a month plan by today, you lost your blue verification mark. Some of the world’s best and brightest had their checks taken away this morning,” Kimmel explained, “Including: His Holiness, Pope Francis; Her Holiness, Oprah; and somehow, I lost my blue check.”“But Jimmy Fallon got to keep his blue check.
I guess that means he’s the only real Jimmy now. I don’t know,” Kimmel went on. “And guess who else still has a check mark? You ready for this? OJ got to keep his check mark! I guess you don’t want to make him mad though, right?”“I mean, this ‘who still has a check’ thing is interesting because both Stephen King and Lebron James publicly said they would not pay for Twitter, and yet they still have their checkmarks,” Kimmel said.
stopped using Twitter on April 12 after the label “State-Affiliated Media” was added to its account, a move apparently ordered by Musk himself. The label was later changed to “government funded,” which is also inaccurate.
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McKinley Franklin editor Elon Musk announced Saturday that Twitter will allow media publishers to charge users on a per-article basis in the near future. The new feature will let media publishers allow users to acquire access to articles for a one-time fee, as opposed to purchasing a full subscription. “Rolling out next month, this platform will allow media publishers to charge users on a per article basis with one click,” Musk tweeted. “This enables users who would not sign up for a monthly subscription to pay a higher per article price for when they want to read an occasional article.” Musk anticipates that the new Twitter feature will be a “win-win” for readers and media publishers.
This enables users who would not sign up for a monthly subscription to pay a higher per article price for when they want to read an occasional article.…This is one of many changes that Musk has made to the social media app. Earlier in the week, he announced the subscription feature which gives content creators the opportunity to make money off their content by charging a monthly fee.
Elon Musk is not only on a mission to make Twitter profitable but to also give creators the opportunity to monetize their content. The platform’s CEO announced a new feature that will allow media publishers to charge on a per-article basis.
Bill Maher calls Elon Musk "a likable guy" in exclusive "Real Time" interview https://t.co/PddBhuDjTvHere are a few others that hit below Maher’s belt:I watched Bill Maher interview Elon Musk last night and all I could think was, “Damn, Bill Maher sure is good at kissing ass, and Elon Musk sure is good at spreading his bullshit, right-wing propaganda.”I watched Bill Maher interview Elon Musk last night and all I could think was, "Damn, Bill Maher sure is good at kissing ass, and Elon Musk sure is good at spreading his bullshit, right-wing propaganda."Woke’s bad impact on the left is bad movies and TV shows. Antiwoke on the right leads to discrimination laws banning free speech in schools and laws banning treatment to the point of harm to various groups.
“Real Time With Bill Maher” was a lengthy sit-down between its host and embattled Twitter CEO Elon Musk — two men who, by their own count, have faced attempted cancellation “many times.” Circling the topic of cancel culture, at one point in the interview, Maher told the social media head that he chooses not to tweet as much in fear of it: “The mob of mean girls is still there,” he said, adding, “It’s so easy to get canceled, and I don’t even know what pisses them off, these kids.” When Musk advised him to learn to ignore the feedback, Maher quipped, “That’s easy for you to say. They can’t take your job!”In the interview segment (which you can watch in full above), Maher began by defending Musk’s $44 billion acquisition of Twitter last fall.
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Twitter has added posthumous blue checks to the accounts of dead celebrities including Kobe Bryant, Michael Jackson, Chadwick Bosman, Chester Bennington and more.The updates follow a promise made by owner Elon Musk, which saw him remove all legacy-verified checkmarks from the site on April 20, as a way of encouraging users to sign up for an $8 (£6) monthly fee.While the removal of the legacy-verified checkmarks sparked debates from multiple users throughout the entertainment industry — including Ricky Gervais and Jack Black — in recent days numerous high-profile accounts regained the verification symbol on their accounts. This was suspected to be part of a wider (but unannounced) scheme to restore verification to users with over one million followers.Among the famous faces who have had the checkmark reissued to their account are multiple dead celebrities.
like thousands of others, lost his official verification badge after a site-wide purge of legacy verified accounts who refused to pony up for Twitter Blue — Musk’s $8-dolllar-a-month subscription service. “dear @elonmusk.
Ricky Gervais has spoken out after losing his blue checkmark on Twitter.On Thursday (April 20), the profile verification checkmarks were removed from all legacy accounts on the platform, barring those who paid for a Twitter Blue subscription.Various figures within the entertainment have since been sharing their thoughts about the change, with Gervais being one of the latest.“My blue tick has gone. I’m not sure if I’m really me or not,” joked the After Life star.My blue tick has gone.
Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor The squeaky wheel gets the Twitter blue check-mark, it seems. After Twitter’s mass revocation Thursday of thousands of “legacy” verified blue check-marks, carrying out owner Elon Musk’s long-promised purge of the “corrupt” system, several high-profile accounts still had the iconic blue badges… even though they evidently aren’t paying for Twitter Blue (the subscription service whose perks now include a blue check-mark). Those included NBA superstar LeBron James, actor William Shatner and author Stephen King — each of whom had tweeted that they wouldn’t pay for Twitter Blue or had complained about Musk’s switch in the verification program.
Ricky Gervais and Richard Osman have reacted to losing their “blue tick” on Twitter. At the behest of Twitter CEO Elon Musk, the social media platform finally removed the “legacy verified” marks on celebrity profiles, with users now needing to pay a monthly fee in order to be “verified”.
Elon Musk is feeling the heat on Twitter after his SpaceX rocket blew up again!
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Stephen King reminds us, “No one can tell what goes on in between the person you were and the person you become. No one can chart that blue and lonely section of hell. There are no maps of the change.
K.J. Yossman Elon Musk has called his take-over of Twitter “quite painful” in an unexpected late-night interview with the BBC. The tech billionaire sat down with BBC North America tech reporter James Clayton at Twitter’s headquarters in San Francisco on Tuesday evening local time. Asked about his previous comments regarding Twitter being “painful,” Musk acknowledged that was still the case but added, “I wasn’t stabbed, like some people around here.” The comment is understood to refer to the murder of Cash app founder Bob Lee, who was stabbed to death in San Francisco last week.
In a last-minute interview given to the BBC overnight, Twitter owner Elon Musk said his time at the social media platform has been “a rollercoaster” with a “high pain level”. Delivering updates on a number of his more controversial decisions, he said “mistakes [have been] made along the way” but that the social media giant is “headed to a good place.”
If you have a legacy verified account on Twitter, get ready to say goodbye to your blue checkmark very soon unless you want to pay to keep it.