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Enough Musk Spam

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"Twitter Blue subscribers can now hide their checkmarks"

Elon managed to take the once-coveted blue check and turned it into something that's embarrassing enough to warrant wanting to hide it ๐Ÿ˜‚

https://mas.to/@Techaltar/110819760177607195

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[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Can this not be easily used for money laundering? Use a ton of bot accounts to buy blue โœ”๏ธ?

[โ€“] BigDiction 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Forgive me if I don't know how money laundering works, but how do you get the money back out of Twitter in this scenario?

[โ€“] Kelly 6 points 1 year ago

It only makes sense if it was Twitter's dirty money being cleaned.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Make a botnet that uses money to be laundered to purchase twit blue 1x each, then hide checkmark status so a difference can't be seen.

Harvest money through Twitter profit

[โ€“] BigDiction 2 points 1 year ago

I wasnt aware they had a Rev share program. Yeah I guess if you can extract close to the check mark price it could work