So the #BirdSite verification situation is working about as well as everyone predicted. There's a nontrivial chance that #Musk could keep it afloat in the short term on the back of people paying $8 to take the piss.

This is a thread of "blue tick" account impersonations, some of them genuinely hilarious. Also functions as a handy list of brands who will almost certainly be actively boycotting the site in future, but so would a data dump of every known global brand.

https://twitter.com/JoshuaPHilll/status/1590899514638229506?t=Lkemfzer0mSEpcJjHEbGDw&s=19