The IT Nerd

If you have a legacy verified checkmark, and you didn’t pay Elon Musk $8 a month ($11 on iOS) to keep it, then according to Twitter, you will lose that checkmark today:

Part of me wonders is doing this today which is known as 4/20 day or the day that Cannabis users celebrate the use of the drug is a coincidence. Or is more of Elon’s juvenile humour. Leave a comment below and share your thoughts on that.

In any case, by nuking legacy verified checkmarks, it means that the only people who will have checkmarks are the people who paid to get attention. Which there aren’t a lot of those on Twitter. And not many have any significant levels of followers. And as I’ve said before, this move will drive more people from Twitter. And by not having “notable” people on Twitter will make it far less appealing to advertisers. Which sends Twitter into a bigger death spiral that it already is in. It’s pretty clear at this point that Elon is going to die on this hill as he seems to be on a suicide mission to destroy Twitter.

Oh well. There’s always Mastodon as it’s a far better place than Twitter.

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