“ This is account is avow , ” the new label reads .
Besides making it harder to describe ( and block ) people who pay $ 8 for Twitter Blue to get an Elon - approved disconsolate checkmark , Musk ’s new verified recording label gives him handle in case any celebrities decide to sue him for implying they were fans of Twitter Blue . Nearly two week ago , Musk decide to troll celebrities who had n’t devote to retain their blue checkmarks by his 4/20 deadlineby giving them the most cringe object on the net : a blue checkmark .
Twitter legend @dril , who come out the # BlockTheBlue effort aimed at blocking user with pay off blue checkmarks , bemoaned his Musk - enforce blue checkmarkand suggested the billionaire wasbreaking federal lawby making faux endorsements .
Twitter Blue subscriptions are so uncool that Elon Musk has given up on mentioning them altogether.Illustration: Jody Serrano / Gizmodo / Getty Images
its ok he fired the people in kick of recite him its illegalhttps://t.co/9K01oQwP9k
— wint ( @dril)April 22 , 2023
Nonetheless , it ’s not like Twitter or its chief executive officer demand any more problem . The troupe is still struggling to find new source of gross — it managed to sell only 28 Twitter Blue subscriptionsimmediately after Musk extinguish legacy verify checkmarks — and appear to be bewilder all variety of things at the rampart to see what control stick , such as subscriptions to single users andmicropayments for private news articles(eventually ) .
Screenshot: Jody Serrano / Gizmodo / Twitter
Musk , meanwhile , is still crusade with media organizations on Twitter . On Tuesday , hethreatened to give NPR ’s Twitter grip , @NPR , to another companyif it did n’t bulge tweeting again . NPR announced it was leaving Twitter on April 12after a workweek - long battle with Musk over medium labels which suggest the outlet was influenced by the U.S. authorities . The Twitter CEO suggested give the mercantile establishment ’s account to “ National Pumpkin Radio , ” which does n’t subsist .
At the end of the twenty-four hour period though , this is Elon Musk we ’re talking about , the same person who routinely ignores fair advice in favor of bad antic or troll . It ’s difficult to say whether he transfer Twitter ’s assert label to protect his paid drug user , ward off a lawsuit , or plainly because that ’s the path the wind blew .
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— Elon Musk ( @elonmusk)April 22 , 2023
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