An account with one follower was verified

I guess it had $8.

Edit: I just found out there are two types, but you can only tell the difference by clicking: https://mobile.twitter.com/mattxiv/status/159044734248196915...

Watching Musk "move fast and break things" at Twitter is fascinating, it's not like a small site with a few users, he's getting instant feedback from thousands (millions?) of users at once.