Twitter re-verified a slew of users who did not pay for Twitter Blue—prompting celebrities, journalists, and institutions to publicly proclaim that they “did not subscribe.”
that an employee at Twitter had emailed James to “extend a complimentary subscription to Twitter Blue for your account, @kingjames, on behalf of Elon Musk.” Musk’s longtime media adviser confirmed that James didn’t pay to be verified—a response that writerwas telling in itself, given how difficult it is for most reporters to get in touch with James’ people. “It’s an astonishing business story.
Meanwhile, there hasn’t exactly been a mad dash among the “legacy” verified crowd to join the latest iteration of Twitter Blue. “Of the 420,000 legacy verified blue checks, about 320 signed up for Twitter Blue and around 290 got rid of Twitter Blue, NBC’s. Which amounted, between signups and cancellations on Thursday and Friday, to a net increase of 28 accounts.
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