Are You Going To Pay

Ah Twitter. Elon Musk's White Whale. Are you going to pay a monthly fee to stay on Twitter to help bail out another Billionaire? Oh wait, people already pay for $4.99 a month for Twitter Blue, which is going up to $7.99 a month now that Elon owns it. Blue is the verification method used to prove who you are. I guess auto-bots just don't have the cash to spend on their fake accounts.

And I really thought George Clooney was following me too!

I think Jennifer can offer a little more insight than I.

 Jennifer Jolly Special to USA TODAY

I lost way too much of my life to the drama unfolding on Twitter this past week — heck, even just in the past hour. Nearly everything Elon Musk tweets out these days seems to raise my blood pressure — and my hackles. Some of it is immature bro-culture “jokes” that aren’t funny. Pro tip: When you have to point out that something’s “funny,” it’s not. There’s also a definite troll-vibe to a lot of what he’s putting out, like calling credible news sources “fake,” while tweeting — then later deleting — a horrific conspiracy theory about the brutal hammer attack on Paul Pelosi, husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Hate speech has skyrocketed on Twitter since Musk took the helm too. According to Bloomberg, there was a 1,300% increase in a racist slur shortly after the takeover. Where do we go from here? Trending hashtag #twittermigration points to a new crop of social media sites such as Mastodon, CounterSocial and Tumblr as places social seekers are starting to flock.

This is,

The First Thing I Did Yesterday Was To Block Elon Musk On My Twitter Account

TwoBuckHowie

 

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“If Republicans were willing to scrutinize billionaires *half* as much as they scrutinize people on food stamps, this country would be a much better place.”
- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez -

 

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