This tweet really sums up the problem Musk created for himself: he turned "give me $96/year" into a political statement.
And then having his weird bootlickers flooding the mentions of every account that doesn't buy it to harangue them into paying for an emoji doesn't help.
Also, sir, you are responding to a puppet.
I've said it repeatedly: it should be SUPER easy to sell me on a premium social media product. And yet... Mr. Business Genius managed to screw up the product and alienate power users to the point where it's like, "lol, f that"
Waiting for someone to go, "ERM, ACKSHUALLY, he only said that he thinks they should be ABLE to implement these laws." Miss me with that shit. His workplace is the home of Matt Walsh and Michael Knowles, who have talked about pushing trans people out of public society repeatedly.
These losers are so angry that the overwhelming majority of people who were verified have just responded to the loss of their bLuE cHeCkMarK by shrugging 🤷🏻♀️
People keep comparing this to the Sneeches, but I think this part is actually more like in the Grinch Who Stole Christmas when the people of Whoville wake up on Christmas morning and just kind of carry on.
Twitter's getting glitchy as they figure out the check thing...
The Chrome plugin that lets you know if it's a paid account or not switched to say mine is "paid" (but it's not, as clicking the Twitter Blue button asks me to subscribe)
Then switched back to not paid.
Then, it brought back the old "is verified because it's notable in gov, news, entertainment, etc."
Then switched to say paid again, but kept the old message.
Then switched to not paid again with the old message.
As it is 4/20, please enjoy this collection of Twitter ads trying to sell me drugs, collected over the past couple of weeks or so
High quality advertisers on Twitter these days. It's like that, ads for a "conservative Amazon dot com" (what does that even mean) and ads claiming that Tylenol causes autism. Super high quality.