Who loves buying Twitter blue checks? The Taliban.

This would have been unimaginable a year ago, yet here we are now.

Mind you, blue check status was always a terrible status symbol. It's just more terrible now.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-64294613

Taliban start buying blue ticks on Twitter

Prominent officials have bought ticks which used to indicate notable accounts verified by Twitter.

BBC News

The funniest aspect is how the Taliban is literally praising Elon Musk, saying he's "making Twitter great again".

What an endorsement!

If I were to do an anti-Twitter ad campaign, I'd put a full page ad in the New York Times that says:

Twitter: Loved by the Taliban

Then I'd put in real quotes from top Taliban officials about how much they love the service.

@atomicpoet you’d attract more MAGA to twitter
@tafkak MAGA already owns Twitter. What we need is everyone else off Twitter.
@atomicpoet @tafkak This is the correct answer. For whatever reason, governments just don't want to do it. Looking at you #cdnpoli.
@atomicpoet
next birdcage headquarter: doha vs dubai
UAE Lobbied U.S. To Host Taliban Embassy Instead of Gulf Rival Qatar, Hacker Group Global Leaks Reveals

Email exchanges between Emirati and American officials show the UAE wanted Abu Dhabi to host the Taliban embassy.

Newsweek
@atomicpoet The GOP would end up defending the Taliban as a result.
@atomicpoet
Didn't a Bin Laden family remember publicly support Trump?
@atomicpoet "the Taliban is literally praising Elon Musk" - with fronds like these, who needs anemones?
@atomicpoet
At this point, it is all but certain that Twitter is eventually involved in the planning and implementation of a terror attack on US soil. I wonder what kind of dirt Musk acquired when he bought Twitter. Whatever it is, it is enough to keep Democrats from doing anything about his BS.
@DavidAshleyDavies
@atomicpoet Of all the things that could have happened in the 21st century, the one I did not have on my bingo card was “the word ‘great’ completely inverts it’s meaning”
@CraigSloss @atomicpoet "Great" as in "the Great War", "the Great Plague of London", etc
@atomicpoet Elon likes the Taliban more than he likes the Democratic Party!
@atomicpoet for a second I thought it was The Onion, holy carp.
@atomicpoet surely this upsets someone like OFAC.
@atomicpoet isn't it a crime for US companies to do buisness with the Taliban?
@atomicpoet
Honest journalists need to leave the bird site. Now.
Twitter is contaminated. And no longer trustworthy.