How is "charge for checkmark" different from "charge for advertising"? Whether the rates are `"outlandish" and "meaningless."` remains to be seen ... but $1k/m

How is "charge for checkmark" different from "charge for advertising"? Whether the rates are `"outlandish" and "meaningless."` remains to be seen ... but $1k/mo is probably less than is being spent on advertising by all but the smallest companies If you want longer tweets, get the checkmark If you want 'normal' tweets, don't But complaining that a platform that basically let you advertise 'for free' now wants you to pay for advertising seems far more "outlandish and meaningless" to me