If you’ve already deleted your Twitter account, you are really missing something. What was tragedy is turning into farce.

Somehow I imagine Musk hanging around bus stations going up to random strangers: “Hey! Wanna get verified on Twitter? $8.”

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Bottom story of the day:

Japanese Emperor Naruhito undergoes prostate examination - The Mainichi https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20221106/p2g/00m/0na/030000c

My bet is that Musk is going to run Twitter into the ground, and then as a final attempt to recoup some of his losses sell all the user data to the highest bidder. China perhaps.

Me: The truth? Real people won't pay $8 for something they used to get for free. Bots with something to sell will. It's the best $8 investment they can make.

Ben Collins: "“He thinks the bots won’t pay money, so anyone without a blue mark will be a bot, in his logic,” a Twitter employee who is still at the company told me." https://twitter.com/oneunderscore__/status/1588643047146823680

Me: So the only tweets we'll see will come from ugly women with puffy lips and enormous butts who are posting links for nude photos. That, along with bitcoin and companies selling mail-order weed.

"This wrecks twitter. In his own words caught on camera “you won’t really see’ what your friends are posting - even in your own replies - if they don’t pay for it.

His genius idea is shadowbanning free users?? 😹" https://twitter.com/somebadideas/status/1588939778439139328

As reported over on the bird site: "If you don’t pay the $8 your tweets will be suppressed by an algorithm. Not making this shit up [Musk] said it to a room of investors yesterday & claimed this would solve hate speech. 'You’ll have to scroll really far to see unverified users'" https://twitter.com/somebadideas/status/1588876465915166721

Homeland Security Admits It Tried to Manufacture Fake Terrorists for Trump https://gizmodo.com/donald-trump-homeland-security-report-antifa-portland-1849718673

60 years ago, Billboard #2 for the week of Nov. 5, 1962: Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons - Big Girls Don t Cry https://youtu.be/DAgQIb77UhU

50 years ago, Billboard #2 for the week of Nov. 5, 1972: The Moody Blues - Nights In White Satin https://youtu.be/9muzyOd4Lh8

Three Stories About the Death of Twitter https://open.substack.com/pub/thetriad/p/three-stories-about-the-death-of

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Twitter Employees Forced to Sign Affidavit Swearing They Think Elon Musk Is Cool https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/twitter-employees-forced-to-sign-affidavit-swearing-they-think-elon-musk-is-cool

How completely clueless and detached from reality can a person be?