The Blue (Check) Fairy

$20 a month to keep my blue check? Fuck that, they should pay me. If that gets instituted, I’m gone like Enron.

— Stephen King (@StephenKing) October 31, 2022

Now he wants everyone to think he’s poor? pic.twitter.com/CRHbiZSQhr

— Kim (@kim) November 1, 2022

Only on Twitter can we watch a man worth $200 billion negotiate with a man worth $500 million about saving $12 a month. pic.twitter.com/pttRSHvTtc

— Joel M. Petlin (@Joelmpetlin) November 1, 2022

But:

If one in five current blue ticks paid $20 a month that would raise just under $15 million a year for Twitter…Twitter’s current revenues (mostly from ads) are $5 billion a year. Musk’s apparent plan would generate about 30 hours’ worth of annual revenue. https://t.co/RmuMirG2PL

— James Ball (@jamesrbuk) November 1, 2022

The problem with charging for blue ticks isn’t that we’re all claiming we wouldn’t pay. It’s that even if loads of us did the maths just doesn’t work.

— James Ball (@jamesrbuk) November 1, 2022

But Elmo is a genius! So it can’t be that he simply can’t do maths.

And more bad news!

Sad to announce that I've been fired from Twitter. I was responsible for making sure every person with a Greek statue profile pic had the absolute worst opinions you've ever seen.

— Classical Studies Memes for Hellenistic Teens (@CSMFHT) November 1, 2022