X tells advertisers to spend $1,000 per month or risk losing verification status::Elon Musk says that brands will need to pay X $1,000 per months in order to keep the verification badge…

  • Bri Guy @sopuli.xyz
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    11 months ago

    This just sounds like a desperate attempt to try and turn a profit before Twitter/X finally shits the bed cuz it ran out of money

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      11 months ago

      I don’t think elon can afford to do that because it would look really bad for his other brands. I think he is better off trying to keep it somewhat alive

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    11 months ago

    The only thing that’s being “verified” is the credit card number.

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    11 months ago

    What the fuck is this X thing? Sounds like a shitty version of Twitter, like the one that Trump is always ranting on.

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      11 months ago

      It literally is twitter. It re-branded this week.

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        11 months ago

        But Twitter is one of the best known brands on the internet. It would be mind-bogglingly stupid to just throw that away.

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          11 months ago

          Why would anyone want to associate inane internet chatter with birdsong when they could simply associate it with porn? Elon has a very large…brain, and he wants to make sure you think of it as often as he does.

          Rumor has it that our thoughts fill an aching void in his soul that can otherwise only be filled with apartheid emeralds or NFTs, but science has yet to find a way to test this hypothesis.

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    11 months ago

    X… Elon… X Elon… XElon… XYlon… I figured it out guys, he’s an evil robot whose creator forgot the I part of AI.

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    11 months ago

    Need some sarcastic quotes around “X”.

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      11 months ago

      Yeah, gotta figure something out. Can’t really do the sarcastic UpPeR cAsE lOWeR cAsE thing with a single letter.

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      11 months ago

      Huh; I’ve never seen a username styled like that before. How’d you do that?

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    11 months ago

    What’s the purpose of the megathread? I’m so confused what’s going on with this community…

  • 𝕄𝕒𝕡𝕝𝕖ℂ𝕠𝕗𝕗𝕖𝕖
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    11 months ago

    This almost HAS to be intentional at this point. I’m thinking some version of:

    “Oh, you won’t let me back out of spending this money to buy your platform? Ehhh, i guess that money is gone now. I’ll just mess around with this and try to have fun with it.”

    or:

    “Goddamn that was a lot of money that I didn’t actually want to spend. I’m going to destroy this now, piece by piece.”