Twitter/X new ID Verification - First Look

Nobody, absolutely nobody should trust that idiot with your ID.

Twitter aside, if any website or app ever asks this of you, please nope the fuck out.

Don't do this. Delete your Xitter account and use Mastodon instead.

90s: stay anonymous, be careful with strangers, don't give up any more info than you have to. The internet can be a dangerous place. Also, supervise your kids and have them ask permission to go online.

2010s-2020s: livestream your life 24/7, use real names and emails everywhere when signing up for bullshit, hand your kid a phone and let them go buck wild as well.

How did we stray like this?

I, for one, want to thank Elon Musk for graciously backing up my highly sensitive government ID (that has my birthdate, eye color, height, weight), my biometric data, and likeness! It is such a nice thing to centralize all my most sensitive data into one giant honeypot waiting to meltdown. It is made even more appealing after he fired the entire staff responsible for maintaining this honeypot!

Looking forward to the inevitable massive data breach.

There is absolutely 0 chance I'm sending any documents to the clown in chief

Man, Elon's got one hell of a boner for WeChat, huh? I honestly feel embarassed for him. WeChat is WeChat because it's Chinese -- there is no secret formula for Elon to steal. The circumstances which created WeChat simply do not exist in the west and IMO it should stay that way.

Nobody noticed “Be prepared to take a sefie” !?

Ah yes, just take a photo of your id. Surely X can be trusted, right… right guys?

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

Online banks use this method. I am not happy with this either. It's government-regulated, so OK (sort of).

A social media site? No, thank you.

Exciting times for hackers !

I mean if you want your identity to be stolen, theres other equally fast ways

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.

I am going to continue not having an account and not having to deal with this.

Normalizing proving who you are to random online companies. I can't see how this could backfire.

Why would anybody do this?

Is sefie the new covfefe?

Au10tix

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

Too bad Twitter didn't already have a fully-functional identity verification system 6 months ago, which didn't require the exposure of any sensitive PII. Would be crazy if that had been a thing, eh?

Ha ha ha ha ha... No.

I genuinely don’t care about pretty much every other piece of drama related to X but I won’t be giving any social media or my government issued ID that won’t be happening.

Commence operation dick pic

Humor is now legal on twitter!

It was already failing, now it's just going overkill.

Is Twittex now going to sell weed or why do they want driver license photos?

Are you signing up for broker wtf. Should I give you my bank information too?

Not a chance in hell I would give them that info

Well my drivers license of a penis is really going to pay off this time. unzips pants

Send Melon your drivers license so he can remotely disable the brakes on your Tesla if you’re mean to him on “X”

Thank god for Mastodon

LOL, literally speedrunning Twitter's bankruptcy.

✅ Biometrics and ID stored forever who-knows-where

✅ Continued data mining and exploitation

✅ Total surveillance state

💩 The enshittification continues. Gotta love it.

Seriously though... I'm not bullish on this platform. I don't know what it's turning into, but if it truly is a "WeChat of the West," it's not something I'm interested in participating in. And I don't wanna have a hand in building it.

In this route, it means that X would really become an identity platform.

And us being on this platform gives it value. Gives it validity.

I wonder every single day if it makes sense to leave the platforms in protest, or stay in the belly of the beast and raise awareness from within.

I see value in both, but I don't think there's a way to know which is the "correct" or "best" approach until you have hindsight.

Either way, it's clear that we don't matter for anything other than exploitation. The business model doesn't allow for anything else, really.

Side note: Here's a clean version of the URL: https://twitter.com/popcrave/status/1691852136236327316

(Remember to delete everything after the ampersand. Everything after it is an identifier.)

I already hated twitter before, but this is a whole new league of bullshit.

Lol, no thanks.

Hahaha what the fuck

Jesus fucking christ

I'm saying ❌ to that

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

If I'm actually verified, I probably won't be able to get away with saying half of the dumb things I say here.

So, that's a no from me.

Found a link to it

Three months from now: Ring of previously anonymous fascists on x exposed via hack

Are they requiring that?

I deleted my main, still have an AD. Guess that will probably be going too.

Wtf no

I've made a mistake by trying to restore a old Facebook account that I wanted to "delete", I even attempted it on two occasions, of course they demand an ID picture but their website is horrible with the phone camera so the pics always came out blurry so they always refused them.

Never again.

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

We’re going to find out in a few years that some congressman’s son or a defense contractor or whatever founded all these “ID verify” systems that are worse than nothing. State IDs will be useless in a few years after the 500th data breach and kids will be j/o to porn their ancestors couldn’t even imagine.

community notes mention this will be a feature of X premium.

X.

premium.

It's just the first step before TwitterX turns into an "everything" app.

They're really struggling with this whole "verification" thing. Maybe getting rid of verification on the first place just to sell an emoji next to people's name was a bad idea in the first place!

My expectations were low, but holy shit.

"take a sefie" followed by TOS

I always figured we'd end up with a forum like the one from ender's game. sucks tho.

never elon

Run forest RUUUNN!

Literally 1984

I mean, I never used Twitter in the first place so I'm not the target audience; but this would be a hard pass for me.

Cmon! Why people are still using it?

where did this image come from?

Fediverse about to be eating good

Coinbase? Is that you?

Might as well just publicly post your id photo on xitter, same amount of security

Well, if I hadn't dropped twitter when they called the CBC state run media, I would have over this.

Instagram wanted similar for me to "reactivate your account after not logging in for an extended period of time"

Nope, Instagram is not that important to me. Fuck you Zuckerberg.

I just hope it doesn't become mandatory and if it does I'm getting the fuck out of "X"

Lol no thanks

It's definitely a good thing I ain't got an account on that dumpster fire nor am I ever gonna have one, especially with Musky Husky making the fire worse.

Elon can go huff his Musk.

naa i aint doing that

Not me most likely.

Anything you say can and will be used against you.

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.

instresting

I assume just for verified users? A good way to weed out bots, and only suckers, grifters and sex workers with no better options are verified anymore anyway. So limited harm.

doesn't he have a shitload of satellites up in the sky, basically watching and listening to everything

If this is used for account verification and paid "verification" will be removed, then do not see any issue here.

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