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X revokes paid blue check from United Auto Workers after strike called (arstechnica.com)
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X revokes paid blue check from United Auto Workers after strike called::After a report called out Musk's union-busting, UAW's blue check got reinstated.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's the network effect. People still use it because other people are there.

[โ€“] xX_fnord_Xx 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah. I'm not famous at all, but I could imagine it would be troublesome trying to migrate a popular account with thousands of followers to another service.

Even if you were successful, you'd probably only retain a quarter of your followers because most people can't be ballsed to dl/sign up for another app.

Half your followers on Twitter are probably bots or inactive anyhow, so take that as you will.