Mike Masnick ✅So, uh, not pleased that Elon is now implying I might be a gullible sucker who would pay him his monthly "I'm a gullible sucker" fee. Dude should just take away our legacy blue checks like he promised.
Whitney McNamara@mmasnick Wait, is Elmo actually trying to go with questioning whether or not you've paid for Twitter stupid when he definitively knows otherwise (assuming any engineers who can answer the question still respond to him)?
Wu Evar 🇪🇺🇺🇦I see two possible explanations:
1) he might intentionally muddy the water, guessing that not many people will subscribe. By keeping the legacy checkmarks he inflates the visible subscription indicators. More people might pay because you don’t look like a paying sheep and account xyz also has a blue checkmark and might pay.
2) The backlash on revoking the “legacy verification” was too big.
I think it’s option 1.