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.
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.
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
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.