Mike Fraser :REDCDN2: on Nostr: #[0] Twitter in a pretty shrewd move at the outset made the blue check a status ...

npub1pqkcawxz93urvkuqeqtmk55zncp6hevdzar33xj8cs96q6jlm40qrjz65u (npub1pqk…z65u) Twitter in a pretty shrewd move at the outset made the blue check a status symbol. It tiered it's users and gave them something to aspire too. I imagine it was also a great carrot for prospective advertisers. It's scarcity created demand. Of course Elon with zero clue immediately devalued the check mark to zero so now those that once had status have been stripped of it, including, you guessed it, the press.