A verified Twitter account posing as the pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly tweeted Thursday afternoon saying, "We are excited to announce that insulin is free now." The account, with the handle @EliLillyandCo, used the Eli Lilly logo and had a verified checkmark.The tweet generated more than 1,500 retweets and stayed up for several hours before the account was locked by Twitter.

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Later in the evening, the account was unlocked. The Eli Lilly logo was removed. The checkmark remained on the desktop version of the site, but not on the app.The real Eli Lilly Twitter account, @LillyPad, tweeted, "We apologize to those who have been served a misleading message from a fake Lilly account. Our official Twitter account is @LillyPad."

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Another funny thing is that Elon supporters have said, "Ha ha, stupid trolls are paying Elon $8 every time they make a new fake-corporate account to troll him," except as others have pointed out, credit cards will let you reverse the charges if he suspends the account within a month, because you didn't receive the product you paid for, i.e. one month's service.

Another fake corpoate account was from "Lockheed Martin" announcing they were suspending all sales to Saudi Arabia, Israel, and the United States until they'd conducted a full investigation of those countries' human rights abuses.
 

Eli Lilly Dives After Fake Twitter Account Promises Free Insulin; Takes Novo Nordisk, Sanofi With It

With nearly every up or down, "experts" explain what caused it.
I don't think they have any idea.  Rich folks had good sex or bad gas are probably as good as any.
I have about the same very negative opinion of both the stock market and Twitter.  And use neither.

I got interested in starting my own BBS back in the late 80s, after using the other BBSes in town. The system operators were all drunk with the power they got from somehow attacting an audience. They loved  becoming the cool kids with status. They would flaunt their ability to ban anybody. "Bring out the banhammer 3000!" became a rallying cry on one of the BBSes whenever anyone offended their clique.

The new cool kids were suddenly running their own high school lunch table, and acting like the old high school cool kids. You can't sit here!

If I had a BBS, I thought, people could say whatever they wanted. No cool kid vote and no cool kid veto. And there would be no special places where some people could get to and others couldn't. Nobody would get a special status; and I wouldn't either. I would try hard not to grab the one true ring and become corrupted by its power. I'd just be one of everybody.

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Twitter was like the BBS sysop bunch getting big time power and angling to be able to use it on anyone they didn't like. As of yesterday, we have the receipts. They wrote internal tools to give themselves different types of bans and shadow bans to use. They bent their own rules to wield maximum power. The CEO was weak and allowed these power games to fester.

It was "banhammer 3000" all over again, the very same dynamic, but now played on a global scale. And all their power was so focused on this game that it became the whole point of the organization. Their "safety" team was so busy banning their outgroups, they didn't have enough attention left to go after things like child sex trafficking operations.

It's true. A week after Elon took over, anti-trafficking advocate Eliza Bleu noticed that the three main hashtags used by traffickers were gone. As she had requested from Twitter's "safety" team again and again. It turned out the only way to accomplish this was to lay off the entire "safety" team and start over.

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What happened to the power-wielding sysops back in the day? The Cellar BBS took their users. Their communities petered out and died, even before the Internet came for them. You don't build a healthy, vibrant community through exclusion, by definition.

Twitter was similarly sick. It was limited, it was declining as a place for honest discussion or the issues of the day. Now users are up, engagement is up. Advertisers will follow because Twitter again becomes a place where influencers and decision-makers can talk. They don't do this on Facebook or Instagram.

The losing cool kids basically know this, and they are largely staying on Twitter. In fact, for the most part, they are miserably complaining about Twitter ON TWITTER. That tells you all you need to know. High school is over, and Twitter is going to succeed, for the same reason that The Cellar BBS succeeded.

glatt wrote:

... this country is still discussing the nuances of freedom of speech.

Unfortunately freedom only exists AFTER responsibility exists.  Social media has made responsible speech unnecessary.  We are now learning how destructive freedom can be without responsibility.

In the past year, I have now discovered  people in psychological therapy due to hate and hype promoted by extremist rhetoric in social media.  They foolishly and automatically believed extremist rhetoric.  Indications of violence, intolerance, and confrontation have increased due to increased freedom without responsibility.

One would expect us to learn from harmful targeting decades ago in schools that even created self harm including depression and suicides.  Do we blame the victim? (Many do.)  Not blame cyberbullies who need freedom of speech to promote intentionally destructive lies and behavior?

Why did Saddam have WMDs?  Free speech without responsibility easily corrupted a majority.  Making America the pariah.

Freedom can only exist when responsibility also exists.  Since so many adults are not officer material.  Do not know how to separate hate, hearsay, and lies from honesty.

Why must responsibility always be included with free speech?   The Migram experiment in Yale  demonstrates people who are the problem.  Who make free speech without responsibility so problematic.

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STUNNING whistleblower details over the weekend

- Twitter did not have a test bed system, made code changes to the production system (which any developer in the world will tell you is IN FUCKING SANE) ("Just add the feature right in and see if it crashes or discloses a bunch of data that should be private.") and
- ALL engineers had access to add to the production code with NO LOGGING of who checked things in. Holy fucking shit. And
- 51% of Twitter full-time employees had full access to production and live user data. As a result...
- In 2020 the biggest security breach of any social media site in history happened at Twitter, and it was infiltrated by teenagers, who simply phoned Twitter employees, pretended to be Twitter IT support, and asked for their passwords. This gave them access to all the accounts in the world and they used the accounts of Obama, Biden, Gates, and Musk, among others, to make posts asking people to send them cryptocurrency.
- This was easy because there were no internal controls on work systems, and employees were repeatedly found to be intentionally installing spyware on their work computers AT THE REQUEST OF EXTERNAL ORGANIZATIONS
- There was evidence that one or more employees were working for foreign intelligence operations, and in fact:
- There were multiple episodes suggesting that Twitter had been penetrated by foreign intelligence agencies.
- The Indian government forced Twitter to hire their government agents.
- China, who blocks Twitter, paid for information that would let them monitor users in China using VPNs to access Twitter, but the InfoSec officer was told to ignore it becasue Twitter was too dependent on this revenue stream!
- And just before being promoted to CEO, Parag Agrawal suggested to the InfoSec officer that Twitter should comply with Russia's censorship and surveillance demands as a way to grow users in Russia.
- And finally they hid a lot of this stuff from the exec board and wrote security reports as to mislead the board into thinking things were fine.

Sadly, all this is harmful to the Musk Man Bad narrative, and so it will probably be under-reported. At least you know, now.

How is any of that harmful to the Musk Man Bad narrative?

Undertoad wrote:

- In 2020 the biggest security breach of any social media site in history happened at Twitter, and it was infiltrated by teenagers, who simply phoned Twitter employees, pretended to be Twitter IT support, and asked for their passwords. This gave them access to all the accounts in the world and they used the accounts of Obama, Biden, Gates, and Musk, among others, to make posts asking people to send them cryptocurrency.
 

This was a crazy story. The mastermind behind this Twitter social engineering fiasco started off as a Minecraft hacker who made his bones selling stolen Minecraft usernames
 

suit yourself, i'm not really interested in your opinion

i'm tired of that game do you have any others we could play

you haven't posted an honest reply since that day i asked if you were fucking little kids and you said yes