from Hacker News

Twitter has suspended the launch of Twitter Blue

by vthallam on 11/11/22, 3:46 PM with 73 comments

  • by x86_64Ubuntu on 11/11/22, 4:54 PM

    Why should impersonation be a problem? A true free-speech absolutist would think impersonation and parodying are okay.

  • by c7b on 11/11/22, 6:38 PM

    You might be forgiven for thinking that Musk, who arguably incorporates the Silicon Valley spirit like no one else, is taking a 'fail fast' approach to his Twitter adventure.

  • by meepmorp on 11/11/22, 5:25 PM

    Looks like Musk got stuck in Chesterton's fence.

  • by panick21_ on 11/11/22, 5:25 PM

    I don't understand what is so difficult about this.

    Allow anybody to get verified, they just need to present their passport and then their display name is fixed to that name, or if its a company you verify that.

    Just letting anybody be verified while claiming to be 'Coca Cola Company' make no sense what so ever.

    Honestly, I think mortising that feature isn't a bad idea, specially for companies, politicians and so on. But just letting anybody pay for a check mark is kind of crazy.

    Why bot fighting is such a problem is also a mystery. I mean so often these bot account use literally the same picture, the same name and a username like @EIonMusk22525. How fucking hard is it to write some machine learning to recognize stuff like that? Having protection from bots that impersonate would seem to be a feature worth paying for, given how often the replies of somebody are full with impersonators that promote crypto schemes.

    I thought it was incredibly stupid for Musk to buy twitter, a never ending pit of problems unlikely to ever make money and basically nuking his reputation even more. Literally jumping head first into culture war issues. Guaranteed to make everybody on all sides angry.

  • by joegahona on 11/11/22, 7:55 PM

    Could a straightforward UX change stop the bleeding re: impersonation: Swap the prominence/styling of the "name" (which is, inexplicably, editable) with the handle (which is by definition unique). Display handle in all-lowercase.

  • by michaericalribo on 11/11/22, 4:36 PM

    Almost like Musk has no clue what he's doing, just winging it — and doing a poor job of it.