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kingdragonfly

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  #3038913 19-Feb-2023 10:18
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GSManiac:

Now if you want sms 2FA on your twitter account, you have to be a blue subscriber. If you don’t remove 2fa from your account, you will be blocked from your account.



According the Twitter's press releases, here's the logic

There are "bad actors"

Good people use two form authentication. Additionally only good people are willing to pay $8/month.

Bad actors could never afford $8/month.

Magically, bad actors are not able to use two-form authentication, in the same way vampires can't see their reflection in a mirror.

Since you won't pay $8/month, you're 50% bad, and blocked.


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  #3038921 19-Feb-2023 10:40
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Elon just tweeted: "Use of free authentication apps for 2FA will remain free and are much more secure than SMS."





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  #3038927 19-Feb-2023 10:47
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PC Mag: Lock It Down: How to Use 2FA on Twitter Without Paying for Twitter Blue

Twitter is discontinuing SMS-based 2FA for everyone except Twitter Blue members. Here's how to switch from text-based multi-factor authentication to an app or security key.
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While SMS-based 2FA is the weakest form of the security measure, removing it as a free option sends a message about how Twitter values security and its users.

It’s also poor public relations, "PR", for little return, since less than 2% of users utilized SMS-based 2FA.
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  #3039019 19-Feb-2023 14:08
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I am pretty sure that the one and only reason for cutting out SMS for users that aren't paying is to cut costs. Plain and simple.

 

BTW: Not surprised that Twitter is now Elon-Twitter with promoted tweets form the twit-in-charge. I am actually surprised it took this long.





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  #3039027 19-Feb-2023 14:19
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He won't be twit in charge much longer. The hunt for a replacement CEO is under way.


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  #3039028 19-Feb-2023 14:21
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networkn:

 

He won't be twit in charge much longer. The hunt for a replacement CEO is under way.

 

 

That CEO is going to have to bend to the whims of Elon. So not much will change from how Elon is "managing" Twitter today.





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  #3039038 19-Feb-2023 15:00
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Elon Musk can't let anyone else gain any profile.
Everything must be from his own mastery of everything.

 

So any Twitter CEO must be prepaired to take a back seat publically, except. 
Rolled out when Elon stuffs up to explain said stuff up, latest shitpost etc.
Take responsibility and flack for it.

 

Constantly shining Elon's shiny butt. Pump up his ranking on Twitter etc.
I tried to get ChatGPT to write a fictional Dickensian story, 
if Uriah Heap became Elon's choice for Twitter CEO.
It really did not want to go for gold on Elon's character, so whole thing was a fail.

 

Air Hockey Tables in Vacuum Tubes... What could be easier.

Peter Thiel and the Bonesaw People might have him on some sort of financial leash though?


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  #3039040 19-Feb-2023 15:06
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jarledb:

I am pretty sure that the one and only reason for cutting out SMS for users that aren't paying is to cut costs. Plain and simple.

 

 

You can tell Our Elon is definitely upper management material, he's busy looking for mouse holes in the corner to stuff while being oblivious to the fact that two of the four walls are missing, and the third one isn't looking so good either.

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  #3039077 19-Feb-2023 17:31
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CYaBro:

 

Elon just tweeted: "Use of free authentication apps for 2FA will remain free and are much more secure than SMS."

 

 

A CEO who cares about such details back and forth has too much time on his hands. Twitter could have thought it through and communicated this officially. But as smart as he is, it was just a trial balloon to see „if the price was feasible.“





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  #3042030 26-Feb-2023 09:36
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CNBC: Elon Musk-led Twitter has been sued by at least six companies for failing to pay bills

A startup called Writer, Inc., sued Twitter this week over non-payment.

The new complaint marks the sixth U.S. company to sue for non-payment of bills since Elon Musk took over the social media business last October.

Vendor non-payment disputes are not typical after a buyout, finance experts told CNBC. They are more typical of a financially distressed company. thank you, Captain Obvious

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  #3042043 26-Feb-2023 10:19
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Well, "Musk", like "Scrooge", is really hard to reconcile with "social".





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  #3042342 26-Feb-2023 20:58
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Tinkerisk:

CYaBro:


Elon just tweeted: "Use of free authentication apps for 2FA will remain free and are much more secure than SMS."



A CEO who cares about such details back and forth has too much time on his hands. Twitter could have thought it through and communicated this officially. But as smart as he is, it was just a trial balloon to see „if the price was feasible.“



Various telcos were generating millions of SMS and hence revenue for themselves. So this move to to put a stop to that.....

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  #3044239 3-Mar-2023 11:49
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Vice:'Just Another Hype Cycle': Elon Musk Reportedly Building 'Based AI' Because ChatGPT Is Too Woke

Elon Musk is forming a new research lab to develop an alternative to ChatGPT, the popular chatbot that he derided as being too “woke,” according to a report from The Information.

Though Musk was one of the original founders of OpenAI, the parent company of ChatGPT, he left in 2018 due to disagreements in the company’s direction and has recently been a vocal critic of the company and its products.

Musk, who is a notorious free-speech advocate, once called ChatGPT “concerning” for not being willing to say a racial slur in an absurd hypothetical situation where doing so would save millions of people from a nuclear bomb.

In another instance, in response to a user asking OpenAI CEO Sam Altman to “turn off the woke settings for GPT” Musk replied, saying, “The danger of training AI to be woke—in other words, lie—is deadly.”
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  #3044293 3-Mar-2023 12:23
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More Twitter sackings.

 

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/feb/27/elon-musk-fires-additional-200-people-at-twitter-report-says


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