Well, this is weird and gross in a number of ways… Elon Musk‘s Twitter changes since purchasing the social media app for way too much have been largely panned.
He fired staff needed to run the site (so much so he had to hire some back), he unbanned white supremacist accounts and shadow-banned folks who were critical of him, and much like Donald Trump with his infrastructure promises (remember that?) he completely failed to do the one thing we were cheering for — bringing back Vine.
Most recently he removed the verification check marks — replacing them with a paid “verification” system which offers none of the ID theft/hoax security but does net Elon a return on his $44 billion investment — $8 at a time.
It was this last move he was bragging about when he showed a little too much on Monday. He posted a screen grab of his account which showed the actual number of current subscribers to Twitter Blue — 24.7k.
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