Twitter's verification process was a dumpster fire, and it had huge problems. It existed for a reason that wasn't to make money. So all of a sudden, making it something that you can pay for is obviously going to completely undermine the reason that it existed in the first place. And so what's happening? I think he'd knee jerked on a joke to buy Twitter. He went a little too far. They forced him.

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