Twitter events of November 2022 under the new blue check system

1. Twitter Blue Check Chaos
Dr. Lorri Mon, FSU iSchool
LIS 5385 Social & Collaborative Computing

2. Elon Musk comes into Twitter HQ as new owner of
Twitter, weirdly carrying a sink. Says, “let that sink in.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/30/technology/elon-musk-twitter-debt.html

3. Impacts/Aftermath of Twitter Sale
Drew Harwell, Taylor Lorenz and Cat Zakrzewski (2022)
“Racist tweets quickly surface after Musk closes Twitter
deal.” The Washington Post, (10/28/2022)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/10/28/mu
sk-twitter-racist-posts
Barbara Ortutay, Tom Krisher, Matt
O'Brien & the Associated Press (2022)
Musk takes over Twitter, fires content
moderation chief and now policing hate
speech is his job. Fortune, (Oct 29, 2022)
https://fortune.com/2022/10/29/musk-twitter-content-
moderation-policing-hate-speech/
Top firm IPG advises clients ‘pause’ Twitter
ads after Musk takeover: report
NY Post, Nov 1, 2022 https://nypost.com/2022/11/01/top-ad-
firm-ipg-advises-clients-to-pause-twitter-ads-report
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/28/gm-temporarily-suspends-
advertising-on-twitter-following-elon-musk-takeover.html
https://twitter.com/ScottNover/status/1587429097369747459

4. Sarah Frier (2022) Elon Musk's
Twitter Layoffs Could Diminish Its
Secret Sauce. Bloomberg
November 7, 2022
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2022-11-07/elon-musk-s-twitter-layoffs-could-diminish-its-secret-sauce

5. Twitter Layoffs (and invite-backs)
https://twitter.com/0xdoug/status/1588553872939044864 https://sysgears.com/articles/how-and-why-twitter-uses-scala/

6. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1587312517679878144
https://twitter.com/AltTextUtil/status/1588962781503533056/photo/1

7. https://twitter.com/Naly_D/status/1590639353247969285/photo/1

9. https://twitter.com/DojaCat

10. https://twitter.com/jesus

11. https://granthshala.com/twitter-struggles-to-keep-up-with-impersonators-taking-advantage-of-elon-musks-new-paid-verification-system-with-false-claims-that-lebron-james-is-requesting-a-trade-and-george-w-bush-misses-killi/

12. https://twitter.com/usedgove

13. https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/twitter-suspends-8-subscription-program-after-fake-accounts-boom-3512988
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/nov/10/twitter-blue-verification-parody-impersonation

14. https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/twitter-suspends-8-subscription-program-after-fake-accounts-boom-3512988

15. Eli Lilly – Stock Market Selloff Reaction
https://www.investors.com/news/technology/lly-stock-dives-taking-novo-sanofi-with-it-after-fake-twitter-account-promises-free-insulin/

16. Lockheed Martin – Stock
Market Selloff Reaction
https://twitter.com/David_Slotnick/status/1591148152958353409/photo/2

17. Account gets deleted
shortly after topping
1000 retweets
https://mobile.twitter.com/mmasnick/status/1591233007314423808

18. https://twitter.com/Keubiko/status/1591166613927366656/photo/1

19. https://mobile.twitter.com/purdycity/status/1591037683388002304/photo/1
https://twitter.com/JoshuaPHilll/status/1591059456711806976/photo/1

20. https://twitter.com/octal/status/1590882341333110784

21. https://twitter.com/JoshuaPHilll/status/1590899650000613376/photo/1

22. https://mobile.twitter.com/RobIox_US/status/1590710434424041472

23. Nintendo USA
https://twitter.com/DiscordianKitty/status/1590603831749931008
https://twitter.com/DaveMilbo/status/1590473000004227072

24. Images currently circulating around on Twitter
https://twitter.com/ZoeSchiffer/status/1591081913166745601 https://twitter.com/aspenquakes/status/1591093414384521222/photo/1

25. https://twitter.com/ditzkoff/status/1588698683662831617

26. https://twitter.com/DevonHeinen/status/1591205635320066048/photo/1

27. https://twitter.com/LynnCheney8/status/1590901832380952576/photo/1

28. https://dellyranks.com/twitter-blue-signups-unavailable-after-wave-of-fake-accounts/?

29. https://twitter.com/JackMLawrence/status/1590480221257359361

30. https://twitter.com/SenMarkey/status/1591164312168824832