Starting August 7th, advertisers that haven’t reached certain spending thresholds will lose their official brand account verification. According to emails obtained by the WSJ, brands need to have spent at least $1,000 on ads within the prior 30 days or $6,000 in the previous 180 days to retain the gold checkmark identifying that the account belongs to a verified brand.
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Threatening to remove verified checkmarks is a risky move given how many ‘Twitter alternative’ services like Threads and Bluesky are cropping up and how willing consumers appear to be to jump ship, with Threads rocketing to 100 million registrations in just five days. That said, it’s not like other efforts to drum up some additional cash, like increasing API pricing, have gone down especially well, either. It’s a bold strategy, Cotton — let’s see if it pays off for him.
Just a few more failed businesses and in about 50 years he’ll be all set to run for POTUS as the Republican nominee.
What a shame he was born in South Africa and isn’t eligible.
for some reason, i don’t think that would stop him from trying anyway and then throwing a tantrum for being ineligible.
I’m not convinced the GOP wouldn’t nominate him, and that the current SCOTUS wouldn’t rule he was eligible to run.
Yeah, I get the feeling that he’d get nominated anyway and the stance would be “well we can’t do the whole election over again, so let them run”.
They would probably just yell out something about Obama and then simply declare him the president.
Edit: Someone already said this 6 hours ago. Even other people see this ridiculous situation as totally possible.
“He’s an African American and apparently that was ok once, why not now?”
I’m sure the Republicans would just come out of the woodwork and ask “Oh, but what about Obama, how come he can run for POTUS then?”. Which is, of course, something I already seen someone ask. Wasn’t even some old person from “different times” or whatever, this person genuinely just had no justifiable reason to be this racist.
What if the US annexes SA, would he be eligible?
why would the US annex SA
why would the US have the opportunity to annex SA even
To get access to Lesotho. That fully enclaved country has been protected long enough by South Africa and it’s time to let 🦅 Freedom™ 🇺🇲 ring.
Next is Luxembourg and Vatican City. Pope better watch out for Uncle Sam.
Look, the US has far higher priorities than those small countries
They really should take on Liechtenstein once and for all
Pope vs uncle Sam celebrity death match style for control of all Catholics. Make it happen people.
doesnt SA have oil?
I’m not American but I confess I’m relieved that he can’t do that. Just try to imagine someone like him being able to fire nukes.
We dont have to imagine given that Trump was president for 4 horrible years.
Musk strikes me as being potentially even worse than him, though
That’s okay. He can’t be president unless they change the U.S. constitution or something.
Rather more realistically, they just have to reinterpret the constitution, a much lower bar.
What makes you think he can’t, and won’t, do that?
He’s not a natural born citizen of the United States of America.
The constitution never actually defines what natural born is. So it would be entirely up to SCOTUS. The same SCOTUS that currently has several GOP members being openly bribed for decisions. For shockingly lower amounts than you’d expect.
Aha yeah I forgot about that weird rule
What makes it weird? What countries allow naturalized citizens run for president? (Genuinely curious)
AFAIK at least France and Germany
He isn’t US born.
How’s he doing on rapes, domestic violence, and paying for abortions? That’s still a requirement for that party last I checked
Ah, that’s a good point. Well, he’s still got ~50 years to work on those if he hasn’t started yet.