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@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 2 years ago

Twitter/X new ID Verification - First Look

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Twitter/X new ID Verification - First Look

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@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 2 years ago
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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

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  • @[email protected]
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    6•2 years ago

    What’s stopping someone from printing a fake ID on paper? Also would a printed photo pass the “selfie” test?

    • @[email protected]
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      3•2 years ago

      This kind of verification usually works by the user being visible on camera and holding their ID up to the camera, turning it in multiple directions to show its safety features.

  • @[email protected]
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    7•2 years ago

    Literally 1984

    • @[email protected]
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      Not really. Literally 1984 would be mass surveillance, even inside your home, media everywhere, rewriting history. Some US states start to fit this.

    • @[email protected]
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      deleted by creator

      • theodewere
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        isn’t he also working on a direct physical link to the brain with wires and stuff

        • @[email protected]
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          deleted by creator

          • theodewere
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            you sure do hope

    • @[email protected]
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      8•2 years ago

      Have you read that book? Because it sounds like you haven’t…

    • @[email protected]
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      1•2 years ago

      No it’s 2023.

  • @[email protected]
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    13•2 years ago

    Wow, sure don’t want to try that out!

  • @[email protected]
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    14•2 years ago

    Jesus fucking christ

  • sixty
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    16•2 years ago

    Hahaha what the fuck

  • @[email protected]
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    13•2 years ago

    Inb4 this data gets leaked.

  • diprount_tomato
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    2•2 years ago

    I just hope it doesn’t become mandatory and if it does I’m getting the fuck out of “X”

  • Obinice
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    71•2 years ago

    Hahahahaha no.

    Besides, what makes them think I even have a government ID? I don’t drive and I’d only need a passport if I had to leave the country.

    Looooooooots of people don’t have ID.

  • @[email protected]
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    53•2 years ago

    Is sefie the new covfefe?

  • @[email protected]
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    2•2 years ago

    Alright alright, I get the bandwagon hate for Elon. But think of it this way. ID verification would reduce bots and malicious accounts that are used for “grass roots” advertising or to swing political elections

  • @[email protected]
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    71•2 years ago

    Exciting times for hackers !

  • @[email protected]
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    82•2 years ago

    it won’t be mandatory, unfortunately. Would’ve loved to see another fediverse mass migration

    • gabe [he/him]
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      35•2 years ago

      The eternal september moment for the fediverse is very much coming

    • @[email protected]
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      4•2 years ago

      Yeah, it’s only for people stupid enough to pay for Twitter.

    • meseek #2982
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      Fuck. I was hoping Elon had a meltdown and made it mandatory.

      Not that Elon having some of your more pedigree info could possibly ever go wrong!

    • @[email protected]
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      Yeah I don’t know who they ask to do this but I’ve been on Twitter since 2014 and they’ve never shown me this and if they mandated it I’d leave even though they already have my phone number and know who I’m.

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    • HiramFromTheChi
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      Lets everyone else know how hard you’re being exploited by the platform ✅

  • @[email protected]
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    1•2 years ago

    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.

  • @[email protected]
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    47•2 years ago

    Au10tix

    I wonder if Elon demanded they use this company for identity verification because of their creative use of the letter X

    • @[email protected]
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      Au10tix

      Autistic

      Come ON!

      • setVeryLoud(true);
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        3•2 years ago

        French spotted

        • @[email protected]
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          Negative.

          • setVeryLoud(true);
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            1•2 years ago

            Hmmm Spaniard?

            • @[email protected]
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              1•2 years ago

              (in Spanish): No

              2 down, 193 countries left.

              • setVeryLoud(true);
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                https://youtu.be/x88Z5txBc7w

                • @[email protected]
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                  2•2 years ago

                  Thanks Yakko! 😂

                • @[email protected]B
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                  1•2 years ago

                  Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/x88Z5txBc7w

                  Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

                  I’m open-source, check me out at GitHub.

    • meseek #2982
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      3•2 years ago

      I absolutely would not dismiss this. In fact if you spun up a company that complimented Elon’s, he would 100% return your call I feel lol

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