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X tells advertisers to spend $1,000 per month or risk losing verification status::Elon Musk says that brands will need to pay X $1,000 per months in order to keep the verification badge..

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[–] [email protected] 107 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This just sounds like a desperate attempt to try and turn a profit before Twitter/X finally shits the bed cuz it ran out of money

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I don’t think elon can afford to do that because it would look really bad for his other brands. I think he is better off trying to keep it somewhat alive

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago (1 children)

“Eat it”

-advertisers, probably

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The mainstream ones yeah. But that void will get filled with shady advertisers. It's gonna look like the daily mail on there lol

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Yeah it’s gonna be all scams. Quickest way to ruin an internet website is fill it with scams lol

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

The only thing that's being "verified" is the credit card number.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What the fuck is this X thing? Sounds like a shitty version of Twitter, like the one that Trump is always ranting on.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It literally is twitter. It re-branded this week.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (4 children)

But Twitter is one of the best known brands on the internet. It would be mind-bogglingly stupid to just throw that away.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

He announced the rebranding in a tweet sent last Saturday in the middle of the night. You know, like any competent business person would.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Why would anyone want to associate inane internet chatter with birdsong when they could simply associate it with porn? Elon has a very large....brain, and he wants to make sure you think of it as often as he does.

Rumor has it that our thoughts fill an aching void in his soul that can otherwise only be filled with apartheid emeralds or NFTs, but science has yet to find a way to test this hypothesis.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

It's ok, we can finally sit down with the family and watch XVideos together :)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

It's comically stupid

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

X.. Elon.. X Elon.. XElon.. XYlon.. I figured it out guys, he's an evil robot whose creator forgot the I part of AI.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Need some sarcastic quotes around "X".

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Yeah, gotta figure something out. Can't really do the sarcastic UpPeR cAsE lOWeR cAsE thing with a single letter.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Why do I have the feeling that this is going to go over like a lead balloon?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Advertise to who exactly?! It's a barren wasteland there now.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

What's the purpose of the megathread? I'm so confused what's going on with this community...