Half of Twitter blue subscribers have less than 1000 followers. 20% of them have less than 100 followers and something like 3000 of them have like, I think zero followers. There are probably really great, funny or, you know, accounts out there that create great content that just have not got discovered and haven't blown up. They're probably not the one subscribed to Twitter blue based on the content we see from Twitter blue subscribers.
Paris Marx is joined by Matt Binder to discuss Elon Musk’s first six months at Twitter and how his obsession with blue checks has decimated the company’s finances.
Matt Binder is a reporter at Mashable and the host of Scam Economy and Doomed. Follow Matt on Twitter at @MattBinder.
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