Twitter/X new ID Verification - First Look
Twitter/X new ID Verification - First Look
Thanks to Popcrave https://twitter.com/popcrave/status/1691852136236327316?s=46&t=lcH0dp9biwkMEBKsRQeVeQ
Who here is going to put their ID and photo on X/Twitter
90s: stay anonymous, be careful with strangers, don't give up any more info than you have to. The internet can be a dangerous place. Also, supervise your kids and have them ask permission to go online.
2010s-2020s: livestream your life 24/7, use real names and emails everywhere when signing up for bullshit, hand your kid a phone and let them go buck wild as well.
How did we stray like this?
I, for one, want to thank Elon Musk for graciously backing up my highly sensitive government ID (that has my birthdate, eye color, height, weight), my biometric data, and likeness! It is such a nice thing to centralize all my most sensitive data into one giant honeypot waiting to meltdown. It is made even more appealing after he fired the entire staff responsible for maintaining this honeypot!
I mean if you want your identity to be stolen, theres other equally fast ways
Normalizing proving who you are to random online companies. I can't see how this could backfire.
I genuinely don’t care about pretty much every other piece of drama related to X but I won’t be giving any social media or my government issued ID that won’t be happening.
Commence operation dick pic
Not a chance in hell I would give them that info
Thank god for Mastodon
✅ Biometrics and ID stored forever who-knows-where
✅ Continued data mining and exploitation
✅ Total surveillance state
💩 The enshittification continues. Gotta love it.
Seriously though... I'm not bullish on this platform. I don't know what it's turning into, but if it truly is a "WeChat of the West," it's not something I'm interested in participating in. And I don't wanna have a hand in building it.
In this route, it means that X would really become an identity platform.
And us being on this platform gives it value. Gives it validity.
I wonder every single day if it makes sense to leave the platforms in protest, or stay in the belly of the beast and raise awareness from within.
I see value in both, but I don't think there's a way to know which is the "correct" or "best" approach until you have hindsight.
Either way, it's clear that we don't matter for anything other than exploitation. The business model doesn't allow for anything else, really.
Side note: Here's a clean version of the URL: https://twitter.com/popcrave/status/1691852136236327316
(Remember to delete everything after the ampersand. Everything after it is an identifier.)
I already hated twitter before, but this is a whole new league of bullshit.
Hahaha what the fuck
Lol, no thanks.
I'm saying ❌ to that
Jesus fucking christ
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Wow, sure don't want to try that out!
Three months from now: Ring of previously anonymous fascists on x exposed via hack
Are they requiring that?
I deleted my main, still have an AD. Guess that will probably be going too.
Wtf no
Hell no am I going to give them access to that data. They might as well just admit they are part of the US intelligence collection process at this point, too. Making a fake ID, that I wouldn't mind using with this service. There would be nothing illegal with it, either, it would just break their own EULA. But how would they know?
I've made a mistake by trying to restore a old Facebook account that I wanted to "delete", I even attempted it on two occasions, of course they demand an ID picture but their website is horrible with the phone camera so the pics always came out blurry so they always refused them.
Never again.
We’re going to find out in a few years that some congressman’s son or a defense contractor or whatever founded all these “ID verify” systems that are worse than nothing. State IDs will be useless in a few years after the 500th data breach and kids will be j/o to porn their ancestors couldn’t even imagine.
Cmon! Why people are still using it?
community notes mention this will be a feature of X premium.
X.
premium.
They're really struggling with this whole "verification" thing. Maybe getting rid of verification on the first place just to sell an emoji next to people's name was a bad idea in the first place!
My expectations were low, but holy shit.
I figured major websites would start doing something like this sooner or later.
And no one is going to oppose it either, just roll over and take it, and bully their relatives and friend into blindly going along with it, too.
It's just the first step before TwitterX turns into an "everything" app.
I always figured we'd end up with a forum like the one from ender's game. sucks tho.
never elon
I mean, I never used Twitter in the first place so I'm not the target audience; but this would be a hard pass for me.
Fediverse about to be eating good
Run forest RUUUNN!
"take a sefie" followed by TOS
Might as well just publicly post your id photo on xitter, same amount of security
Instagram wanted similar for me to "reactivate your account after not logging in for an extended period of time"
Nope, Instagram is not that important to me. Fuck you Zuckerberg.
Lol no thanks
I just hope it doesn't become mandatory and if it does I'm getting the fuck out of "X"
It's definitely a good thing I ain't got an account on that dumpster fire nor am I ever gonna have one, especially with Musky Husky making the fire worse.
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naa i aint doing that
I'm assuming this is only for blue checks. This is too big of a PITA for ordinary users. They'll just log out and go somewhere else.
Anything you say can and will be used against you.
Not me most likely.
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Elon can go huff his Musk.
instresting
I assume just for verified users? A good way to weed out bots, and only suckers, grifters and sex workers with no better options are verified anymore anyway. So limited harm.
doesn't he have a shitload of satellites up in the sky, basically watching and listening to everything