X tells advertisers to spend $1k per month or risk losing verification status

The spam in my timeline and likes from obvious bots is magnitudes higher than even a few months ago.

So I’m not sure why advertisers would want to increase spend there

My employer was looking into testing advertising on Twitter, and the $1000 cost to entry was a hard stop on that. Seems like a very poor policy.

Sounds a lot like a protection racket ...

i guess you can call that… Xtortion

All this will do is change the spam vector from paid ads injected into your feed, to self-promoting tweets in the comments section, where $8 blue checks get top blling.

From 8 to 1000... that's quite the jump.

I noticed today that the X logo is very, very similar to the Xs in Forever 21’s store signage (“XXI Forever”).

https://www.simon.com/mall/northshore-mall/stores/xxi-foreve...

I guess this makes Elon’s company Forever 10? Which kind of tracks...

"We'd hate something bad to happen to your business...I'm sure there's a way you can make sure that doesn't happen...". So basically they're adopting the Yelp playbook.

X tells advertisers to spend $1k per month to not have their ads placed next to open anti-Semites, fascists, anti-vax conspiracies, unless Elon Musk posts or retweets them, or decides to not pay the bills.

Got my popcorn right here...

What is with this obsession over bots? If anything, a horde of bots that seem identical to humans could be a good way of artificially boosting metrics, and it's not even illegal because Twitter didn't create or encourage people to create these bots.