Popular accounts on Elon Musk’s X, formerly Twitter, were surprised Wednesday evening to find they had been gifted premium subscriptions to the service, along with the site’s iconic blue verification badge.
No but it's because I haven't been on there since shortly after Musk bought it. I saw that network nosediving into the toilet long ago, along with the infamous market value sink
Only celebs left on Twitter are people I would’ve blocked anyway lol. Also you can set a threshold of followers for blue checks to have before it blocks them. So people with like 100k or more won’t be blocked.
Man I’m a little drunk right now and reading that Elon Musk is “moist with desperation” almost killed me. Definitely going to upset someone by saying this in the near future.
Here's a GIFT, something we thought you'd pay through the nose for (oopsie) and now are hoping you'll use, then we can charge you later. Like the drug dealers giving free samples to get you hooked of lore.
No one wants your lil nazi site honey.
They've realized that only right-wing yahoos were getting the mark and their comments were always first. That was definitely killing the brand. Now they have some others who won't be as... controversial... with checkmarks.
So now they can join the ranks of the distinguished and exclusive group (/s) that also counts as members a bunch of Nazis and trolls who got in for $8.
What a gift from Elmo!
So what’s his play here? Trying to look like there’s more paying users? Trying to pretend his decisions didn’t make it a sewer? Trying to turn the contents around to not be pure sh*t?
