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I don’t understand why journalists continue to call users with the blue check-mark “verified”. There’s no verification of anything but a credit card. Verification is a relic of the past and they need to shift their language to match reality. Maybe call them “paid” users.

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Yeah verified actually had some weight in the past.

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Past habits

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Someone should take screenshots and put them on the internet. It will scare Microsoft and others into not running ads on Twitter.

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Exactly. I don’t get the mentality of not running ads in a YouTube video where someone said „fuck“ but being completely fine with running your ads on twitter.

I mean just checking the feed these days is incredibly toxic. Seems like only people of a certain mindset kept sticking around.

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I mean, Walt Disney might not have actually minded this.

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Advertisers need to see more articles like this. Pulling the ad dollars away from Twitter is the last lever anyone has to try to change it, and it should have happened long ago at this point.

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When it comes to corps the size that the article talks about, they know and they don’t care.

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Twitter must be held responsible for the kind of Nazi content its allowing on their site.

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They are. People are leaving in droves. Advertisers are abandoning the site.

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Would be great if the consequences were greater, but as you imply, they are on a track toward certain death it seems like (just gonna take a few more years idk)

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