[searchableguy]

I wonder if Elon also thought of this when he made verification checks paid.

He must have been aware of verified accounts getting sold and used for scamming so maybe he wanted to dip into that instead of losing it to middleman.

[ctvo]

> He must have been aware of verified accounts getting sold and used for scamming so maybe he wanted to dip into that instead of losing it to middleman.

I don't think we can assume he must have been aware of anything. That team was told to release it by November 9th or they were all fired or some such, right? so in a week and a half, release this new feature.

[Krasnol]

He doesn't look like he thought much. At all.

But maybe that's some genius plan with a spectacular outcome that I fail to see.

[x86_64Ubuntu]

I would think any verified account worth buying on the grey market would be worth more than $8.