Is This Very Painful?

[ToraToraTora]

https://news.sky.com/story/twitter-blue-tick-cull-the-pope-jk-rowling-and-ant-and-dec-among-hundreds-of-thousands-losing-their-verification-12862087
...sorry I don't speak twitface, sounds brutal!

[youngmafbog]

They have to pay for it if they want it. Nothing is for free in this life and they can afford it if they really think it is worthwhile.

[Rosetta]

I dont do twitface but I suspect Musk is shooting himself in the foot with these new policies, at least I hope so.

[barry1010]

I think it's a very good thing if it deters scammers from ripping people off by pretending to be somebody many people trust.

If you don't use those platforms are you in a position to comment, TTT?

[tomus42]

It's as if answerbank said you need to start paying if you want to be the only person that has your username.

Otherwise anyone can call themselves ToraToraTora.

Not great for alot of people but if it's important to them they'll cough up I guess. I personally have no interest in Twitter and I'd be quite happy if Musk hastened its demise.

[webbo3]

\\It's as if answerbank said you need to start paying if you want to be the only person that has your username.

Otherwise anyone can call themselves ToraToraTora.//

So I can call myself gulliver and start talking rubbish.

[tomus42]

Yes, and vice versa.

[Peter Pedant]

pas de marque bleue and you dont come up on searches
so you pay to be top of the pops

people dont seem to have realised that

Life imitates Art - there was an episode in The Good Wife, where a zero sues 'Chum-hum' because the zero has criticised Chum-hum and its algorithm acts to put her way down a search list.

[Gromit]

Musk will restore your blue tick for a few $$$s.

Well it is expensive blowing up rockets.