There is no other way to say it: Twitter is making a fool of itself over Elon Musk’s decisions, perhaps due to the transitive property. I’ve said it on many occasions and I don’t mind saying it again, it’s completely understandable that the new owner of the social network has been focused on improving its income level since the first minute at the helm of the company. Of course, it’s still something he should have thought about before he took the plunge and committed to buying it, something he later tried to back away from, only to find he had so much to lose if he went ahead with the purchase. as if not.

Be that as it may, from the beginning it has always acted with two clear goals in relation to the social network: to ensure freedom of expression and to provide users with the best possible user experience… no, no, clearly he was not, his two main goals were to gain profit at any cost and become the absolute protagonist networks. You know, the thing with the bride at the wedding, the baby at the baptism, etc., something I understand is nothing more than one of the usual symptoms of the megalomania she’s been exhibiting since her presence became public. .

It was undoubtedly one of the most controversial measures taken so far kill verified based on account relevance, to replace it with a model in which the once-coveted blue tag can only be obtained at the checkout. In other words, if you pay a monthly fee, you can pretend to be whoever you want, as was shown a few months ago. Yes, it is true that they have implemented some improvements, but I seriously doubt that now that many accounts have lost the old verified one, we will not experience a renaissance of fake accounts, only this time they are supported by new and quite useless verified .

Just a few days ago, we told you that due to the loss of verified by several celebrities who had already publicly expressed their intention not to pay, it was Musk himself who decided to pay for their verification. But there’s more to it, and according to Business Insider, Twitter added a verified badge to deceased celebrities, such as Michael Jackson, Kobe Bryant, Anthony Bourdain and Chadwick Boseman. By clicking on the badge displayed on the respective profile pages, we can read the following: «This account is verified because they are subscribed to Twitter Blue and have verified their phone number.»

I’ll save the usage jokes oui-ha instead of phone numbers, go directly to assess what happened. First of all, it is true that some of these accounts are managed by heirs, foundations, etc., who may have decided to pay (although no one has claimed this, despite a request for information from the said media), but it is also true that others, such as Anthony Bourdain, they are completely inactive for a long timeso it’s strange to think that those who currently run it, if anyone, have decided to subscribe to Twitter Blue.

It was launched recently a protest movement calling on people to block all verified accounts, given its zero utility under current conditions. So we can see these Twitter-Musk moves as a response to trying to reduce the loss of the value of the verified, even if it comes at the cost of giving it away. Of course, that’s actually how it’s worked since its inception, so I wonder if Musk will ever come to the same conclusion.