> I see so many blue checkmarks now, indicative of a lot of paying users. Speaking as someone that still wants twitter to exist, the number of posts I’ve seen

> I see so many blue checkmarks now, indicative of a lot of paying users. Speaking as someone that still wants twitter to exist, the number of posts I’ve seen has tanked. A lot of people I used to follow on twitter are inactive or deleted their account. I think it’s possible the author is conflating seeing more checkmarks = more users, without grokking that 1) paid users are incentivized to use the platform and 2) the proportion of blue check users increasing COULD just as easily mean there’s less users total with the blue check users sticking around. It doesn’t disprove anything but it also doesn’t prove any point. We could argue all day because we’re arguing about the vibes we’re getting.