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Fire Tweets™.

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@saumil @Ticket_Help2022 Respectfully, IDV doesn't matter when an account that's already verified is hacked. Bad actors were doing that for years. The transfer auth architecture was changed 2 years ago bc it was such a huge issue. That's the can of worms you're reopening.

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@saumil @Ticket_Help2022 You are incentivizing bad actors+scalpers to go back to the days of compromising accounts. ~2 years ago TM took away the ability for tix to be transferred via a 2FA email code because account compromise was such a problem. There was some press. More than happy 2 DM articles.

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@saumil @Ticket_Help2022 Someone with access 2 an email can access anything registered with the address. I can log into my Ticketmaster account right now, not knowing the password, with email access because I can reset it, which means any1 with email access to an IDV gmail account can buy tickets.

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@saumil @Ticket_Help2022 You can't ask customers, less than 2 years after a data breach that stole everything from the product, to submit to higher verification standards then are needed by their email/banks/the IRS/health record providers/anything bought via Square. It's a dumb argument.

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@saumil @Ticket_Help2022 Saumil, you used a Gmail example. Email providers like Gmail serve as the nerve center of an online presence, including Ticketmaster. Email account access = TM account access. No email provider, including those 100x scale of TM, ask for biometric verification.

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

DONALD TRUMP HAS FALLEN ASLEEP AT THE NBA FINALS IN MADISON SQUARE GARDEN.

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@AliBaanana @_ellyg_ @xThisIsAndyG And C3, the promoter, basically invented the radius clause.

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@future_of_music More fun facts! iHeartMedia is Clear Channel’s former radio business. Guess what used to be its live entertainment promotion arm before it was taken public? Live Nation!

iHeartMedia’s owner is still Live Nations biggest shareholder (Liberty Media).

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Meanwhile: “sOrrY wE can’t aDVanCe yOU” to artists who barely break even, who have to put up a ton of their own money to tour to begin with

[TIX @tixprotocol]

Live Nation earned $150M in interest alone in 2025.

This comes from $7.1B in cash on their balance sheet. But most of it isn't theirs.
➤ $4.0B from fans: tickets sold for future shows
➤ $1.6B for venues: client cash owed
➤ $225M for artists: accrued fees

Live Nation parks it in money market funds and bank deposits and pockets all the yield.

You paid for the ticket. They earn the interest.

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@asadabukhalil @nytimes In what functional democracy does a political party have its own standing army?

[Boston Globe Pitchbot @BostonSatire]

Think you can predict what will happen next in the war with Iran?

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[Oliver Alexander @OAlexanderDK]

John Mearsheimer is on a generational losing streak. Truly the Jim Cramer of political science.

[Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump]

So sad that the Department of “Justice” and the FBI are slow walking, or even not giving, the unredacted documents requested by Congress. An embarrassment to our country!

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That protest vote is really paying off.

[John Jackson @hissgoescobra]

WSJ with a devastating, intensely-sourced article demonstrating how Trump, Kushner, and Witkoff tried to sellout Ukraine, the U.S., and Europe for money. It's so bad one of our European allies shared evidence of the planned business deals. A must-read.

https://t.co/VRYfsRFqdq

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@TRUMP_ARMY_ @HawleyMO Important context: Josh Hawley went from holding tenure teaching at one
of the best public universities in the USA to chain retweeting fan fiction MAGA accounts.

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@GregAbbott_TX are you planning on *rolling up* with them?

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@megynkelly she sells out multiple stadiums a city. didn’t your book tour get cancelled due to poor tix sales?

[Nihilist Arby's @nihilist_arbys]

Beneath the blood red sky, as the nuclear ash piles on the scorched ground like snow drifts, as the weak tortured screams echo off bodies piled in our periphery remember here at the end of all things no one cares how many sweet 1/4 lb briskets you chug in 1 sitting

Enjoy Arbys

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If a stated goal of a regime is to wipe a nation off the Earth, and they attempt to develop weapons of mass destruction to do so, it should not be surprising the nation they threatened takes action to deny them those weapons. This isn’t rocket science.