Just updated the Twitter app after months of not doing so, so I’m just now seeing Twitter Blue badges, and it is really ruining the viewing experience, particularly in replies sections of bigger accounts
Two big changes I’m just now seeing with my big big brain:
*things that every single low-level employee working in social media has known for 2+ years*
Also I am worth millions of dollars
every governor and mayor in the country prostrated themselves at the altar of Amazon to get them to build their second HQ in their state and now this
lmao
Social proof is the main way I quickly differentiate jokes from actual news. That’s gone now. I have no idea who this person is without the social proof.
Feels like AI is creating a new type of Internet Tough Guy, who likes to talk really bluntly, without much sentimentality, about everyone (else, but of course not them) are going to lose their jobs.
The reply section of every moderately large account is just twitter blue chuds with the shittiest, least funny replies I’ve ever seen. It might legitimately be over for this place
Seems there will be one fewer data scientists helping to deliver shareholder value through advanced analytics and machine learning capabilities. Wrong choice IMO. To think what could have been.