They say that Elon Musk likes to be talked about a lot, and that was the main reason for buying Twitter. It’s hard to delve into a mind as complex as this character’s (yes, I’m one of those who think that in Musk’s case, the character ate the man), but if this claim is correct, we can safely say that mistaking that the operation was an absolute success, probably the biggest of his life, and an inspiring example to all those people who ever thought of following their dreams.

If the goal was to get people to speak well of him, then of course it didn’t work out so well.. He has shown that his word is more or less as reliable as a fairground shotgun, that his policies differ more than the price of bitcoin, and that his management style consists of firing important workers (and having to ask them to come back after a few hours), stop paying office rent , auctioning off furniture and losing advertisers, it does not seem that she would become a creditor of particularly positive reviews, rather the opposite.

Much of his actions at the helm of Twitter have a very clear and completely legitimate reason: to clean up accounts on the social network. However, he spared no expense in his madness towards green numbers put into sale an element that was key to credibility from a large part of the information published on the social network, verified user badges. It’s true that their previous management was pretty opaque, although those in charge tried to improve it at times, but the previous system was undoubtedly better than the current model.

In recent days we have already seen several examples of the absurdity of the new system, as if it was Musk himself, or at least implied, who paid for the verification of some celebrities, or, as we told you yesterday, who decided to add a banner to the deceased personalities. Because at least if I get oui-ha it is not an accepted payment method for a Twitter Blue subscription. Of course yes, but it’s an exclusive feature for subscribers and that’s why I don’t know.

According to Musk, merging verification with Twitter Blue would kill bots and accounts false, which we didn’t believe for a minute, especially after seeing the corporate identity theft that occurred when the feature was launched. What I didn’t expect was that the social network itself would make it so clear. And as we can read in Variety, Twitter added gold verification to a fake Disney account that posted racist slurs. Specifically, the account (now deleted) was “faking identity” and I put that in quotes because it was clearly an account falsethe UK Disney channel, which ceased broadcasting and closed its official account in October 2020.

Yellow/gold checkered, pAwarded exclusively to companies and media, and to get it you need to register with Verified Organizations, a subscription service that awards a gold badge and a square avatar. In other words, it is also paid, and getting it is, at least in theory, more complicated than getting a blue certificate. However, we can already get an idea of ​​how the verification system works after learning what happened. Of course, after the massive layoffs Musk made, it’s surprising that there’s still anyone dedicated to these tasks.