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Nick Bilton @nickbilton

682 days later, and @realDonaldTrump's account has been reinstated by @elonmusk. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Nov. 20, 2022
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Nick Bilton @nickbilton

RT @elonmusk: Reinstate former President Trump — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Nov. 19, 2022 Retweet
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Nick Bilton @nickbilton

RT @elonmusk: Reinstate former President Trump — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Nov. 19, 2022 Retweet Just a Typo
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Nick Bilton @nickbilton

RT @CNBCnow: BREAKING: Former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes sentenced to more than 11 years in prison https://t.co/g7K7281BjS — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Nov. 18, 2022 Retweet
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Nick Bilton @nickbilton

@ethank @flyosity Now that is an entirely possible scenario. đź’¸ — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Nov. 18, 2022
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Nick Bilton @nickbilton

@flyosity That’s a tad hyperbolic to say the site goes offline forever. People are forgetting that 100k tech workers were laid off this year (34k in Nov alone!), and they are looking for jobs. Maybe there are rolling brownouts to come, but Twitter is not dying. Ever. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Nov. 18, 2022
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Nick Bilton @nickbilton

Twitter employees used to joke: “Twitter is the company that can’t kill itself.” Everyone speculating Twitter might die now, it’s not happening. It’s like the jellyfish “Turritopsis dohrnii” which is 'biologically immortal.’ This chaos is just part of its DNA & how it thrives. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Nov. 18, 2022
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Nick Bilton @nickbilton

In journalism we write obituaries for important people so we can publish them the moment they die. Part of me is wondering if we should start doing this for tech companies now, too. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Nov. 18, 2022
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Nick Bilton @nickbilton

Looks like this little guy is about to come out of retirement. https://t.co/kPZQZ8Vkim — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Nov. 18, 2022
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Nick Bilton @nickbilton

RT @goldman: TikTok is too good https://t.co/QUs9QmuOCs — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Nov. 17, 2022 Retweet Deleted
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Nick Bilton @nickbilton

(Last note: One possible solution to the Blue Check Marks For All is to make a system where people are verified as being who they say they are, and when they get a blue badge they can no longer change their account name... but that would cost a lot more than $8 to implement.) — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Nov. 12, 2022
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Nick Bilton @nickbilton

There is without question a business in handing out blue check marks, but doing so without the verification part, negates 14 years of a symbol that, for better and worse, said someone or something was "real," and not a parody or fake. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Nov. 12, 2022
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Nick Bilton @nickbilton

Anyway, where Twitter screwed up, was that over time being verified became a form of online feudalism, where there were the Check Mark People, and those rest of surfs who couldn't get verified. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Nov. 12, 2022
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Nick Bilton @nickbilton

(Fun aside: the fake accounts actually ended up luring the *real* celebs to Twitter. Someone started a fake Shaq account, and when real Shaq heard about it, he signed up as @the_real_shaq. This also led to lots of famous people putting "Real" in their username — ahem, Donald.) — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Nov. 12, 2022
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Nick Bilton @nickbilton

"We’ll be experimenting with a beta preview of what we’re calling Verified Accounts this summer," @Biz wrote in 2009. "The experiment will begin with public officials, public agencies, famous artists, athletes, and other well known individuals at risk of impersonation." — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Nov. 12, 2022
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Nick Bilton @nickbilton

...and while he settled, that's when Twitter didn't have much of a choice but to roll out Blue Check Marks, or "Verified Accounts Beta," as it was called at the time. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Nov. 12, 2022
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Nick Bilton @nickbilton

In 2009 it became kind of an epidemic, if you will, on Twitter. There was a fake Kanye (Ye was not happy about it!) and then there was a fake Tony La Russa (the St. Louis Cardinals manager) and he was so pissed he decided to sue Twitter... — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Nov. 12, 2022
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Nick Bilton @nickbilton

There was @DarthVader and @God and countless others — and they were amazing. It didn't take long before the fun accounts became parody fake accounts of real people. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Nov. 12, 2022
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Nick Bilton @nickbilton

A short thread about Blue Check Marks. In the early days of Twitter, waaaaaaaay before the celebs and the crypto bros and the pundithinkfluencers were on here, part of the fun of the platform was the fake accounts. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Nov. 12, 2022
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Nick Bilton @nickbilton

This tweet is worth every penny of the $44 billion. — PolitiTweet.org

derek guy @dieworkwear

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Posted Nov. 11, 2022
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Nick Bilton @nickbilton

RT @dieworkwear: https://t.co/RMtdnxrPjm — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Nov. 11, 2022 Retweet
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Nick Bilton @nickbilton

@LisaWritesBooks To quote Elon: "🤣" — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Nov. 7, 2022
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Nick Bilton @nickbilton

If I had $8 for every time someone has asked me if I'm doing a sequel to "Hatching Twitter" (I'm not!), I'd be on some sort of Forbes rich person list. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Nov. 7, 2022
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Nick Bilton @nickbilton

@ltm “The Clown Car Drove OUT of the Goldmine” — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Nov. 7, 2022
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Nick Bilton @nickbilton

RT @ashleevance: In a cost saving move, HBO has announced that the next season of Succession will be made with seven Nest cams installed at… — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Oct. 31, 2022 Retweet
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Nick Bilton @nickbilton

@ashleevance I just legitimately LOLed. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Oct. 31, 2022
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Nick Bilton @nickbilton

And… scene! https://t.co/bt7VoRNgTp — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Oct. 28, 2022
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Nick Bilton @nickbilton

RT @chancery_daily: and that's a wrap for this episode https://t.co/pOOXgGMNLD — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Oct. 28, 2022 Retweet
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Nick Bilton @nickbilton

Most companies see CEO turnover once every 7 to 15 years. Twitter has now had three different CEOs in the past three years. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Oct. 28, 2022
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Nick Bilton @nickbilton

RT @CNBC: Elon Musk now in charge of Twitter, CEO and CFO have left, sources say https://t.co/z0hLc8DrDO — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Oct. 28, 2022 Retweet