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Kotaku reached out to Ahgren to ask if any of the messages explicitly stated that they had purchased Twitter Blue as a means of contacting him. He sent back a screenshot of a message that read: “Haha, I bought verified so you see my message.”

Wow. Not only is this outcome incredibly creepy, it also shows that Musk has no idea how to make a good website. Being able to occasionally see your friends’ tweets and messages is the main perk of having a Twitter account at all. And Musk’s harebrained idea is to replace those people in your feeds with randoms who happened to have $8 in their sock drawer. Maybe this isn’t a good thing to do to people whose presence on the bird app is a draw for others, who ensure that millions of people are on your platform in the first place?

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But hey, I’m not the guy who bought Twitter. I’m just one of the millions who has to deal with the guy who did.