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Accidental Tech Podcast

508: Later Is Getting Later and Later

Accidental Tech Podcast

Marco Arment

Technology

4.42.4K Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2022

⏱️ 137 minutes

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Let me post it rely to twitter if it still exists.

0:03.5

Is it still running?

0:06.2

Who even knows what a disaster, holy gemolies.

0:13.6

What a week.

0:14.4

So my goodness.

0:15.8

I was slightly optimistic last week.

0:19.3

I think I'm less optimistic now.

0:21.2

Yeah, I don't need to do any naval gazing other than to say,

0:25.6

I regret not pushing back on you a little bit more last week.

0:28.5

It doesn't really matter.

0:30.4

I think all three of us can agree, oh man, things are happening.

0:34.7

And it's not good.

0:36.2

It's not good.

0:37.4

It was today, I believe, that anyone could start signing up for Twitter Blue,

0:44.2

the new version of Twitter Blue, where you get a checkmark, a verified checkmark for signing up.

0:50.8

And so any normal person who is reading all these tweets,

0:54.4

who sees a Twitter user with the display name, let's say LeBron James,

0:59.6

and a blue checkmark next to them, they don't need, they don't look at the actual handle for this account.

1:05.6

They just see that LeBron James is saying, oh, I want to get traded or whatever the fake thing

1:10.0

said earlier today.

1:11.2

And so news outlets are now picking this up because that thing is getting retweeted.

1:15.2

And you see, oh, LeBron James with the blue check said he wants to get traded.

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