this is so fucked lmao!!!! it is so weird to see elon's freak ass "power to the people" "taking the checkmark from the lords and giving it to the peasants" rhetoric in official update notes but if there was anyone whose job would've been to translate it into normal words, they were probably fired last week. also delicious: if you pay 8 dollars a month you get half as many ads... but more targeted than before. that's what everyone wants, right? advertisers to have more of our personal information?
not to mention how quickly he's moved the goalposts on the "battle against the bots". we've gone from "I refuse to buy twitter because you won't give me the stats on the bot accounts" to "okay I accept that I've been forced to buy twitter but I'm going to get rid of the bot accounts" to "we will make losers pay $8 a month to be at the top of reply threads, so you have to scroll down more to see the bot accounts"
assuming nobody pays $8 for a spam account to get priority in replies. which they absolutely will do
