This is the sort of thing that makes sense. It’s still just weird that the only way they could think to implement it was by replacing the existing verification system… and all the issues that have come from it.

I’d have paid for the longer tweets and edit button… but I don’t really want to while it basically tars and feathers my account with a heavy dose of “guilt by association” to the significant amount of toxic behaviour that is widely displayed by twitter blue users… they still have a tiered system with verified orgs and government accounts and all this stuff, having a notable and manual verified status just makes sense, so does having a paid and verified status… making them the same thing… no that doesn’t make sense.

> It’s still just weird that the only way they could think to implement it was by replacing the existing verification system… and all the issues that have come from it.

The issues were predictable by anyone slightly familiar with the twitter system, but apparently not to the new owner of the platform

I’m pretty sure he walked in the door carrying the sink and completely convinced of the correct course of action and no one was able to change his mind.

I wonder how Elon actually feels about his purchase of Twitter for $44B.

You don’t have to wonder, he spent months suing to try to get out of his commitment.

I'm not actually sure if that was genuine or another show. It was a very convenient excuse to dump many billions of Tesla stock at its peak, without immediately crashing it.

I wonder how much revenue Twitter has from ads and subscriptions.