Twitter ‘s long awaited transformation into a dumpster fire from hell has finally arrived. In fact it arrived so fast one could argue that it seemingly is happening before one actually could or can blink. Amid the backdrop of lawsuits; class action suits over crummy job cuts, execs walking out the door, and advertisers fleeing like rats running through the NYC subway — Twitter’s Thursday couldn’t have gone worse.
Except it did. As promised the day after the midterm election(s), Twitter launched its revamped version of ‘Twitter Blue” which now features none other than the once sought-after blue verification checkmark. A checkmark and we mean this literally practically anyone can purchase for the low low of just 8 whole American dollars.
As one or all could possibly imagine it is going horribly wrong not even 24 hours later. Within hours of the revamped service launching, several fake profiles of real-life high-profile figures appeared online. And well those tweets were so offensive we were asked not to show them here but we are going to do so anyway to show how lawless Twitter has become.