it s something that actually could have made him a lot of money if he would handle it a little more carefully. right now, it s become a badge of honor not to have the check mark and me included. i m sure you same. realizing what was happening, of course, max mask tried to give back some blue check marks too big celebrities , but the damage was already done with many of those bigger accounts, calling on everyone to hashtag block the blue accounts because they can t be trusted as anything but of course, paid accounts trying to cause havoc here. so what will be the impact of this effort to block paid accounts? and why didn t must realize how this would play out? in terms of what he didn t realize that i think there s honestly no other answer than what we re seeing is someone who s not thinking critically about his actions before he takes them, which is something that maybe works when you re running a company that makes rockets or cars but on social media, where you ve got hundreds of mill
reported. celebrities slammed twitter for removing blue checks for anyone not subscribed to twitter blue, kansas city chiefs patrick mahomes got his blue check back after complaining to elon musk. that s how it works? will: there s a lot going on here. rachel: some other stars also getting those check marks back including beyonce, lebron james, william shoot fertilizer and steven king. he requires $8 a month for verification and musk is picking up the tab for some celebrities. that does not include will cain paying $8 a month. will: twitter is like the biggest inside baseball sometimes. what s fascinating about it. all these people hate elon musk and his takeover and it s been a big virtue signal to let go of the blue check mark and there s others like bette midler is like i ve been on here cricket
quickly via usb c. it even cleans itself. order yours now from blend jet .com and bring a little disney into your life. twitter is blue checkmark saga seemingly won t end after elon musk roof legacy verifications. not many people seem to keen on buying twitter blue. but in the past few days, those check marks started popping up again and with them a note saying that those users bought twitter blue, but here s the problem any insist they did not buy twitter blue even the accounts of late celebrities like pele or kobe bryant say that they purchased twitter blue, even though they passed away, of course long before its inception, and kara swisher joins us now to help us sort this out. she is a contributing opinion writer for the new york times, carol. let s get this out of the way your twitter account is on screen right now, and there s the blue check is that is that current or did you get rid of it? um and
and that s your problem. it s almost become fashionable to not have the blue check now, and i get the sense that there are people pressuring their friends who have blue check marks. hey, why do you have a blue checkmark? you gotta get rid of this thing. you can t get it off. i was like i was fine with it on or off. i don t care, but it s you can t get it off. if you want to. now, i suddenly have twitter blue editing privileges, which i don t want because i had bought twitter blue, many before ellen bought the company to try it out and the previous administration and rolled out a bunch of features. i didn t find it useful enough to pay the money. um and what s interesting is that anyone who doesn t want to pay the money elon s fan boys, it s mostly boys go after them and says you should say thank you for the blue check. and i was like, why should i say thank you for the blue check? i didn t want it and i didn t really want in the first place. but i see why they had it and the whole thin
already for someone that supports the policies of trump, but it s not the dumpster fire that very quickly, jim, let me be very clear. i actually don t . i don t want to see a rematch of joe biden and donald trump. and i think that s where all of those numbers are. why because it was so toxic because of all of the trash and disgusting issues and rhetoric that was coming out of donald trump. i would love for it to be desantis and joe biden because i believe that absolutely joe biden will win against desantis, who wants to go for book banning banning rights for women banding rights for lgbtq community being authoritarian and florida. his own people don t like him. i don t think he the american people will like him, so bring it on. if it is desantis. i hope that it is. for the sake of the country. and joe biden will beat him pants down. alright, thanks , ladies very much appreciated to leave it there. we re gonna hang on to that tape do alright. okay alright. thanks so much ladies apprecia