#Twitter Users With a Million Followers Are Getting 'Paid' Blue Checks, Like It or Not

“Wait I’m crying they’re giving them for punishment now,” Chrissy #Teigen tweeted.

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"Disturbingly, accounts from people who are" dead — including Anthony #Bourdain, Chadwick #Boseman, and Kobe #Bryant ­— have also received the paid blue checks, obviously without being able to consent."

#TwitterTakeover #ElonMusk #SocialMedia #BlueCheckMark #TwitterBlue

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/twitter-blue-badges-added-to-celebrity-accounts-without-subscription-1234722041/

I also really appreciated that they did not try to digitally recreate #Boseman, or even repurpose old footage to get one more new scene from him. It was more powerful that they let him really be dead, off screen to start the movie. We got one carefully chosen scene of #Shuri remembering moments from the first movie. That's it. They didn't try to cash in on his image one more time (see Fisher in Star Wars).