Boom! And just like that Elon Musk dropped a game changer.
After several months of encouraging people to pay $7/month in the form of $84/year, Elon announced yesterday that starting April 15th, only verified Twitter accounts will be eligible to be in the “For You” tab. This was also after he announced that everyone who had an old legacy blue verified account (including me) will now lose their blue check marks and verification starting April 1 — yes that also includes even you too William Shatner .
As you’d imagine the critics are howling . Nobody likes to pay for anything on the internet, especially when we’ve been getting it for free as long as we have.
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