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Twitter tried to goad businesses into buying more ads so they can stay verified (www.theverge.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Oh shit, that’s hilarious, too. Someone must have taken it seriously, because the article made my news feed with no mention of it being a meme. He’s such a joke, that’s apparently plausible. I bought it, lol.

e: thanks for the correction!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

There's a lot of bots that scrape comment sections to create shitty news articles.