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   Darryl Mott 💀 (abstruse@chirp.enworld.org)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Apr-2023 05:26:18 JST Darryl Mott 💀

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   And in case you missed it, yesterday all this happened:

   1. The Twitter Blue backlash kicked into high gear after going live on Thursday a good 14 hours after it was scheduled.

   2. SpaceX had a catastrophic launch failure that blew up the rocket, destroyed the landing pad, threw debris all over the nearby city, and left a crater.

   3. Tesla shares dropped over 10%. Again.

   4. Elon's personal worth dropped by $12.8 billion marking the largest loss in a 24 hour period in modern history

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     Darryl Mott 💀 (abstruse@chirp.enworld.org)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Apr-2023 05:26:20 JST Darryl Mott 💀

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     • Mad Nash Beyond Thunderdome

     This is my favorite summary of the situation from @Nash076 and

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     Darryl Mott 💀 (abstruse@chirp.enworld.org)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Apr-2023 05:26:21 JST Darryl Mott 💀

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     But to prevent impersonations, the new blue verified removes the checkmark if you change your display name.

     Which dril did.

     And it came back immediately. Which only happens via manual review.

     So dril changed his name again.

     And the checkmark came back.

     This has been going on back and forth for an hour, while dril relentlessly mocks Musk and Twitter Blue.

     Elon Musk is in a pissing contest with a meme account on his own website.

     AND LOSING.

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     Darryl Mott 💀 (abstruse@chirp.enworld.org)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Apr-2023 05:26:23 JST Darryl Mott 💀

     If you've disconnected from #twitter but are curious about #ElonMusk's current mess:

     Twitter took away legacy blue checkmarks but Elon decided to "pay" for some himself for big celebrities.

     Everyone started mocking him for it.

     Some started a campaign #BlockTheBlue using plugins to block all paid-verified accounts.

     Elon then "gifted" the largest accounts promoting this with Twitter Blue assuming they would then stop to protect themselves from being blocked.

     Including the account for dril