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Lauren Weinstein

If you need proof that #Twitter has become a self-replicating joke, just consider these two headlines from this past week:

1) Twitter to remove legacy blue checks from non-paying accounts starting 1 April [ I will feel honored when he zaps away mine. ]

2) Twitter to provide option for paying accounts to remove blue checks [ to avoid the embarrassment of being exposed as paying for Twitter ]

You can't make this stuff up.

16 comments
Comfortably Numb🦋

@lauren Also

TWITTER: We will release our code as open source.

* twitter code gets leaked online *

TWITTER: No, not like that github.com/github/dmca/blob/ma

§ Jason

@lauren

But, but, but, Elmo is super-rich, so he is always super-right. This must just be part of some super-genius plan that we are just too super-stupid to see.

misterprotocol

@lauren Get you coming and going, they do…

Beth

@lauren "the embarrassment of...paying for Twitter" —so they know how shitty this all is. They just don't care.

jbaggs

@lauren Elmo's giving Sylvester McMonkey McBean vibes here.

Dave

@jbaggs @lauren That was fairly much my first thought...

SpaceLifeForm

@lauren

But wait! There's more!

Act now, and for an addtional $8 you get a random colored checkmark, and we will throw in a free Ronco Pocket Fisherman!

Hurry, supplies are limited!

The Banished Dragon Alephwyr

@lauren my favorite recent contradiction is planning to open source the code then suing people for leaking the code

Mike McCaffrey

@lauren Always good to schedule major changes to features that combat impersonation for April 1st.

Renée

@lauren wait so they pay for the check then pay not to display the check

Why not just... stop paying for the check

Lauren Weinstein

@rss Presumably because they want the other features associated with a paying account.

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