Kimmel Says Losing Twitter Blue Check Is Like Losing His Virginity: ‘I’ll Just Be Happy I Didn’t Have to Pay For It’ (Video)
thewrap.comTwitter is now worth less than half of what he paid for it last October, announced last week that the “legacy” verification system is being scrapped on April 1.
At that time, account verification — popularly referred to as “blue check status” — will be available only to people who pay for a subscription to “Twitter Blue.”Musk has been threatening to do this since early November, just after he was forced by a lawsuit to take ownership of Twitter after trying to back out of the $44 Billion deal he previously agreed to.
And just as long, critics have warned that restricting verification to only people who pay for it undermines the purpose of account verification.Most notably, it will make it far easier to impersonate anyone who doesn’t pay Musk’s fee, something Kimmel talked about at length.
He showed various fake pages who are impersonating him, but said now he’s unsure who’s his father because someone might be pretending to be him as well.“And then we have this guy, James S Kimmel.
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