PlayStation Is No Longer Officially Verified on Twitter

I think with that many followers they don't need no verification tick.

It's probably just that Sony doesn't want to pay $1000 a month for a stupid checkmark. (I certainly wouldn't) But if someone told me that Elon Musk saw the ending of Burning Shores and unverified them out of spite, I wouldn't call them a liar.

Excited to see the new Spider-man 2 release date announcement from @ Play$tation Twitter account

Wouldn't be surprised if Microsoft was behind this!

Twitter is like a pond with tadpoles compared to Facebook ocean

@UltimateOtaku91 Nah, obviousy @PlayStatlon with 5 follower is the real account

That’s peanuts for Sony and probably a tax deductible expense

"Eh it's just a checkmark. Who cares?" Is what I'm assuming someone at Playstation said. I don't blame them. I don't care about Twitter in general and I sure as heck don't care about a checkmark in Twitter.

The f***ing Pope isn’t verified. It’s just laughable. And then Musk yet again reinvents the wheel by apparently paying out his own pocket for badges for people like Stephen King and LeBron James who categorically refused to pay for the checkmark. Part of me thinks it’s funny, the other is a bit horrified at how somebody so genuinely stupid has amassed such a fortune.

@nessisonett
He was born into a ton of money (but you wouldn't want to know where that came from) and used that money to be at the right place at the right time. Money begets money.

@GorosBat This may come as a shock, but everything isn't made according to just your wants and interests.

@kyleforrester87 There’s a whole quote about not knowing about rocketry and so not questioning the things he says about the subject. But when he started talking about software engineering, many people realised that he doesn’t know a single thing about the subject and talks completely out his arse. He’s bought Twitter for billions and now it’s worth a fraction of that. Tesla’s gone from being some outlier electric vehicle pioneer to becoming a joke about exploding vehicles and cars driving themselves off the road. He was sent to Canada with 100k of apartheid emerald mine money and then pretends like he’s self-made. When you look at a man who consistently makes stupid decisions, you come to the conclusion that he’s a stupid person.

Pretty sure the checkmark isn’t just a checkmark anymore. IIRC the blue checkmark gives you priority in search and conversations over people with no checkmark and the gold checkmark gets you priority over people with blue checkmarks. So the gold checkmark is actually a pretty powerful marketing tool now.

@Beerheadgamer82 Both are cancer and a sign that our civilisation is falling

@kyleforrester87 I think there’s a difference between trying at something and failing and actually misrepresenting your own abilities though. Like a doctor could be a bit of an idiot outside of their work but if they claimed to know all about heart surgery and then killed someone then it would be very different!

I've only been on Twitter for about a decade but I did not know gold checks were a thing and can't recall ever seeing one.

@kyleforrester87 Hahahaha you got me there, I’m just one of the peasants!

@kyleforrester87 Musk is another example of someone who inherited wealth and grew it. He's often assigned attributes like "genius" when, more realistically, he's a product of generational wealth.

@nessisonett I like to imagine that Stephen King was the sole reason why Musk dropped the initial proposed cost for Twitter verification.

Not a big deal. It does seem Sony & Nintendo did pay up for the API stuff so we can continue to share screenshots, videos, etc, and Microsoft did not, which is hilarious on so many levels.

They should pay for a stupid tick. Good

Obviously PlayStation are no more, let's all pay our respects and report the fake account impersonating PlayStation

I mean…Who cares?

@nessisonett Well, he is the most successful entrepreneur amongst 8 billion people currently alive.

He has revolutionized the financial, automotive, energy and space exploration industries to name a few. And lately, he's on a quest for truth and freedom of speech.

But sure, the fact that you don't align with his takes automatically makes him "stupid".

Good. Hope Sony sticks to its guns. Twitter needs companies like Sony more than they realise.

@Art_Vandelay just because someone is successful, doesn't mean he doesn't make mistakes. Also, the smartest people have said and done some incredibly stupid things, so not every move they make is the right one.

When you have spineless advertisers that can be manipulated into pulling advertising on a massive platform from ideology activists, then expect those massive platforms to fund their bottom line in other ways. If it's successful or not will remain to be seen but it would seem journalists have also been unverified.

From what I heard on the news this morning, neither Beyonce, Hillary or Trump are verified.

@Loamy comment of the day right there

Time to increase the price of games again so they can afford the tick.

That's a quite a raise from personal account $8 to $1000 for company account, I'm sure sony can pay it though.

@somnambulance is that a new crypto? Do you generate new square coin by writing more words in posts? This is a good direction!

Who cares about the checkmark? It's a pointless thing to have. No one should pay for it.

Of some of you really want to know about Musk, there's plenty of decent documentaries about..
He was loaded, made more money, nearly lost it all, but really got Uber rich with the space contract.
Let's hope he spends it wisely.

As for the check mark, it really doesn't matter at all

@naruball Of course everyone makes mistakes. That doesn't make them stupid. Actually, being the most successful entrepreneur on planet Earth is proof enough that he learns from his mistakes faster than anyone else.

@somnambulance still more practical than Bitcoin!

I canceled my account with Twitter quite relaxing. But seriously I got sick of the constant stream of nonsense. YouTube is getting bad lately with fake ads Elon Musk is investing the Netherlands crap. Not interested does not seems to matter or they keep pushing the ads it's sickening.

@Art_Vandelay He is also is quite the idiot who didn't manage to get out of its deal with Twitter. He is also busted several times influencing the financial market. Being rich doesn't mean you are God and don't make mistakes.

Elon must be an Xbox fan

@gipsojo Don't be so childish lmao

@kyleforrester87 can we agree he seems maybe only a tad above average in terms of intelligence? Like he's no Bill Gates or, and it pains me to say this, Mark Zuckerberg.

I take Nessi's "stupid" comment to be slightly hyperbolic. A comment to counter just how much praise Musk gets for seemingly very little in the way of results.

Update: they have the check mark now

another L for Dim Ryan just hurting playstation on all fronts

damn

@naruball no they don’t 😂

@Beerheadgamer82 Liam seems to differ

The Official PlayStation account, definitely does have a Gold Star.
So you may want to update your story.

@gipsojo MS is in their own dispute with Twitter, so doubt it.

@Stormageddon no BS code of conduct!? sounds like my kinda site!!

@nessisonett I'm surprised people are taking his "paid for select accounts out of his own pocket"!!🙄 The same guy who also claimed he would step down from running Twitter & then claimed the result was "rigged with bots"!!
Given his petty trolling,he likely ordered them kept verified....& keeping the $$ for his next prematurely exploded tax write off rocket!!😂

Ironically have noticed a surge of bot accounts on my "For You" timeline spamming "Congress going after foreign owned Sony & FTC trying to block Murican Microsoft, yeah!!"...type posts! 🙄
Still enjoy following retro & indie stuff on there,but getting harder to wade through the other stuff!

@kyleforrester87 yeah I could live with that assessment. though investing does allow one the ability to make money off existing capital, without much of a time sacrifice. But no I'm definitely not trying to live for work so he's got me beat there.

I see a regular yellow badge on the official Playstation Twitter account, strange

Anyway, love Elon Musk and how he's trolling the whole world or at least internet

@Flaming_Kaiser You really don't get, do you? Being rich doesn't mean anything. In Elon's case, money is a mere consequence of the many incredible deeds he has managed to accomplish.

Again, everyone makes mistakes. What matters at the end of the day, is the balance between the amount and size of your successes and failures.

No update ? They are verified as of right now.

Yet more evidence of how braindead Muskrat is.

All of Playstation twitter accounts have one.
It's seems like Pushsquare is another propaganda machine as usual, otherwise you would've updated your "news".

@RonnieL I won't judge his character because I don't know him personally and the media will spin any narrative to make you believe whatever they want.

And I don't measure anyone's success by the money that have, but by the accomplishments they achieved. And by that yardstick, Elon is the most successful living human being, period.

If you or I had all the money in the world, we still wouldn't be able to revolutionize a number of industries by sheer entrepreneurship. As a matter of fact, most sons and daughters of billionaires turn out to be spoiled losers.

I'm not "simping" for anyone, I just admire the guy as an entrepreneur myself. And on top of that, he surely has made much more for me than most people, even though he hasn't addressed me personally lol.

@Stormageddon fired a work force that was willing to get into political sides and silence a whole group and anyone that thought differently than the twitter elite. Thats not only against the law, but easily terms for being fired. Should be prosecuted, so most of them got off easily. Not to mention Twitter was heavily over staffed and he has proven that claim. Just food for thought 😀

I'll bet my left arm that Microsoft is behind this one!