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Millionaires Are Not into Paying for Twitter Verification (vulture.com)
10 points by adrian_mrd on April 15, 2023 | hide | past | favorite | 4 comments


If Twitter were a MUD though, no one would consider financial status to gain favors in the world. Or even map physical to digital.

Maybe that's what has changed?

Welcome to tweet MUD, Millionaire123!

> say I am a millionaire

You say, "I am a millionaire" to no one in particular.

A kobold wanders in.

A kobold bites you!

> what

I don't understand that.

A kobold bites you!


Has anyone gotten their blue check mark paid for by fans? For instance what if a group of fans said we want to keep a famous person's Twitter account verified, so we are going to pony up the money.

I know it sounds kind of ridiculous, but I saw my favorite band on Twitter and I would be sad if they left Twitter and to lose that expressive outlet for them to connect with fans.


It would be sad if Twitter left them. But we're still on schedule for that, in spite of all of the noises to the contrary. Paying Musk a couple of $ seems to me to be a rearguard action.


shocked even when verified was free i could not get in so now paying seems like cheat code




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