It’s been two years since Elon Musk decided to sell the verified badges on X (formerly Twitter), accompanied by the message:
7 USD is a small price for freedom
Now that two years have passed, here’s a quick summary of what I’ve gotten from X so far:
- An incompetent, ineffective torrent of ads related to crypto projects, which I’ve reported as illegal products. And indeed they are: all you have to do is access one of those ads on a secure computer to confirm they’re just phishing schemes.
- A group of people trying to get me to follow their threads with blatantly obvious clickbait—so much so that sometimes I confused X with LinkedIn.
- A flood of accounts whose sole purpose is final monetization. It doesn’t matter what crap they post, whether the information is good or bad, real or fake—at the end of the day, all that matters is earning more or being a candidate for the account’s monetization.
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