Sadly, the floodgates have since been closed on these funny fraudulent posts, with the platform rolling back the abused option to add blue checks to anyone who ponied up eight bucks. Advertisers had already been fleeing Twitter following a disturbing rise in hate speech and an exponential growth in use of slurs — it turns out that those responsible for an Oreos ad campaign don’t want people to see a picture of a kid dunking a cookie in milk sandwiched between an anti-Semitic conspiracy post and a tweet that’s just someone writing the n-word 38 times.
If the self-proclaimed “greatest President America has ever known” is correct and these fraudsters all manage to charge back the $8 they spent to publicly embarrass Lockheed Martin, LeBron James, and most of all, the Twitter CEO himself, then the colossal failure of Twitter Blue may be the gasoline that turns this dumpster fire into a full on inferno.
These online arsonists may never be allowed to tweet again, but their contributions to the insanity and chaos of Musk’s fully off-the-rails Twitter tenure will never be forgotten as long as our screenshot folders remain intact. Thank you, Twitter fraud accounts, for making the downfall of social media so much fun.