First, I'm not going to give any social media my ID. If someone intends to expose your ID to hackers...

This doesn't have anything to do with hackers. I'm not going to give any social media my ID, period.

Basically the only reason to collect that level of ID if you’re not a bank is so you can fulfil anti-money laundering requirements necessary to allow trading of some commodity, or currency.

Wait! The darling of the conspiracy theory wingnut flat earther, pizzagate crowd is pushing government certified identification requirements???

We have found the number of the beast, and it is X (and the neurochip he's pushing)

Surely it's for a mechanism to prevent hatespeech, right? Right?

mass migration. it would be cool.

Facebook pulled that same shit on me in 2011, and I never went back. It was awesome!

Hell I’m not going to give my phone my goddamn Id. The further away from cameras my ID is the better.

Hackers could do so much with this.

It's optional and only intended towards Premium users, but concerning nonetheless. This ID-gathering is probably not even regulated in a lot of countries - I haven't found any info on such regulation existing. And a migration is in fact happening - but it's more of just people being less interested in the new 'X' form of Twitter with all of its restrictions. That part of the cake is distributed between platforms like Mastodon/*key, Threads, Bluesky and Tumblr, not to mention Facebook still being a thing too.

These posts seem to always fail to mention that this only applies to accounts that want the verified tag. I'm just as uninterested in sending them a picture of my ID as the rest of you but it's not the most unreasonable thing to ask when you want a blue checkmark which by definition means that you are who you claim to be. Or atleast that's what it used to mean.

So what are people paying $8/mo for then? Just a stupid emoji next to their name? (yes lol)

Facebook did this to me like 10 years ago. I think someone reported my profile as fake, even though I created mine in 2006. They asked for a form of government ID to be sent to them, I did an MS paint line drawing of an ID card. They blocked my account for good with no way to even try again. I wasn't going to send them anything anyways but I thought it was hilarious that they actually wanted me to do that.

Because personal information = money, they can sell your data and they can also target you better with different ads to try and generate more clickable ads for you

Verify you have access to Photoshop and a color printer.

What does “verification” even mean in this context? I thought to get verified now, all you had to do was pay $8

But think about it though, it could be a way for X users that are prone to identity theft to be easily recognizable, like for instance if you're notable enough they could verify your ID and then give something to your profile so people know it's the real you! I'm thinking maybe a Blue X ?

You all can't see Musk's genius, that's all.

The best time to leave Twitter was when Elon took over, the second best time is right now.

I think would be a step too far for most

imagine giving musk of all people access to your ID

Come on guys, stop using it. If ya need a sponsor, I am willing.

I'm going to need the IDs of all Twixxer employees first. Gotta verify that my data is in safe hands, after all.

So it begins. With this they can track through the net easier, and block you from internet for good. Freedom on Net is dying.

wait, isn't it for those who want to be verified? like previous checkmark etc?

I've been slowly moving away from the application formerly known as Twitter for months. I can't think of a large company I'd trust less with my personal information. This is going to accelerate my departure

the beginning of Elon's grand plan

funny you think this man has a plan