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© Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.Twitter's blue check: Vital verification or status symbol?
By BARBARA ORTUTAY SAN FRANCISCO©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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dagon
Verified accounts are often using publicists and easily hacked. Deep fakes are making verification more problematic.
Musk wants to shift as quickly as possible to WeChat superapp mode.
His inspiration, The Culture's author Iain Banks, would argue there could be better uses of his time and energy.
Blacklabel
So then pay the $8. then you dont need to be "alarmed".
Simple.
master
I'll happily pay the paltry $8/month as my followers of well over 360 (yes, the shadow banning has stopped) have complained of fake accounts pretending to be me.
My follower have to be sure they are following me and not some random clown with followers in the double digits.
Wesley
journalism ethics. An oxymoron.
Blacklabel
I mean dont you pay for a domain name? so that someone else doesnt pretend to be cnn.com or take your name.com if you are famous?
I own (my first/last name).com and I am not even famous and lots of other people have the same name as me.
Doesnt sound unreasonable to me at all.
wallace
'Can't log into emails. Mac won’t turn on: Twitter employees in the UK were fired at 3 am and only learned they were out of a job when they woke up to find laptops had been remotely wiped as Elon Musk sacks 3,700 staff around the world.
Employees don't know where they stand.
Twitter has shut down all employee access to his San Francisco headquarters and other offices, warning staff to 'go home and wait to learn of their job status.
wallace
Musk is treating his Twitter employees with contempt.
konjo4u
Maybe not, But Twitter can rely disreputable advertisers if Twitter becomes [more] disreputable itself.
Blacklabel
Half the employees of Twitter have been promoted to “customer”.
couldn’t happen to a more deserving group of rabid leftists.
rainyday
So the business model now is just pure extortion? Pay us 8$ a month or we’ll let people impersonate you on our site?
Screw that.
Blacklabel
Yep same as if you don’t purchase your own domain name.
rainyday
Gee, what a wonderful vision you have for the internet. First domain names, now Twitter, next dozens of copycat services all asking for monthly fees. How much money a month total do you envision we’re going to have to pay solely to prevent scammers from shaking us down? Like will we have to get second jobs to afford it?
wallace
Thousands of employees across the world were fired but will remain on pay until Feb.
wallace
Max Headroom
master
and given 3 months full pay which is 50% more than Musk was legally required to give.
wallace
master
Not all employees just some of them. Law requires at least one month's notice but in cities like SF, the authorities must be notified first. Musk didn't do that.
Different countries have different labor laws.
painkiller
wallaceToday 11:19 am JST
What law do you think requires one month notice? Not in the US.
wallace
painkiller
In the UK, monthly paid employees are required one month's notice before dismal. The dismal can be instant but the employee still receives one month's pay.
A number of UK Twitter employees have been dismissed and both UK HQs are in lockouts.
In the US "at-will" employees are not required to be given notice but the majority of Twitter employees have contracts so the terms of dismissal will be in the contract.
San Francisco District 6 Supervisor Matt Dorsey said in a press release that Twitter had filed a notice with city officials Friday informing them that the company would lay off 784 employees at its San Francisco offices beginning Jan. 4, 2023.
The speed and size of the cuts also opened Musk and Twitter to lawsuits. At least one was filed Thursday in San Francisco alleging Twitter has violated federal law by not providing fired employees the required notice.
The federal Warn Act requires companies who plan to lay off at least 50 workers at one site to give those employees 60 days’ notice, and to notify state and local representatives. It applies to companies with 100 or more full-time employees and allows only a handful of exceptions: natural disaster, unforeseeable business circumstances or a failing business.
None of those would seem to apply in Twitter’s case.
The penalties for violation can result in the employer paying two months of severance out to affected employees.
In Japan, if an employer wishes to dismiss an employee, the employer must give the employee at least 30 days' notice.
The night of 3,500 knives.
Sven Asai
Why should someone of the new target group already now pay $8 and support the remaining unfired half of the former staff who is then still completely consisting of leftists? That’s bare of any logic.