Comment on X revokes paid blue check from United Auto Workers after strike called

LillyPip@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• grayman@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I was not aware anyone was being required to use the twat platform.

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  • LillyPip@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Beholden by choice. They’re simps.

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  • SlopppyEngineer@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s the network effect. People still use it because other people are there.

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    • xX_fnord_Xx@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yeah. I’m not famous at all, but I could imagine it would be troublesome trying to migrate a popular account with thousands of followers to another service.

      Even if you were successful, you’d probably only retain a quarter of your followers because most people can’t be ballsed to dl/sign up for another app.

      Half your followers on Twitter are probably bots or inactive anyhow, so take that as you will.

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  • WheeGeetheCat@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’m not on twitter and never was, but I’m not silly enough to think billionaires don’t shape my world in a million fucking ways with their unilateral decisions. Elon here has a HUGE one recently in deciding to disable starlink during a Ukraine offensive.

    Trying to assist his rich buddies with fucking with the union is a lower tier crime but still its fuckery that affects a lot of people.

    Then we’ve got other rich asshats selling state secrets for money.

    Billionaires are a liability and everyone needs to realize it.

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    • zbyte64@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The “I don’t use Twitter so that’s a you problem” is a thought terminating cliche.

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• NotOverSeether@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The biggest losers are the people who cannot read for more than 10 seconds at a time.

  This article was updated to include information about a Twitter policy to temporarily remove checkmarks from verified accounts that change their profile pictures.

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• BigNote@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This is a win for UAW though. They are trying to unionize Tesla’s workers and this behavior gives them an edge on the already labor-friendly NLRB by showing that Elon is actively anti-union.

  If anyone thinks for a moment that union organizers don’t actively plan this kind of thing out, I can assure that they do. It’s part of their job description. My union is a lot smaller than UAW and our organizers get up to all kinds of subterfuge and shenanigans, so I can only imagine what the UAW people are doing.

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