Starting August 7th, advertisers that haven’t reached certain spending thresholds will lose their official brand account verification. According to emails obtained by the WSJ, brands need to have spent at least $1,000 on ads within the prior 30 days or $6,000 in the previous 180 days to retain the gold checkmark identifying that the account belongs to a verified brand.

Threatening to remove verified checkmarks is a risky move given how many ‘Twitter alternative’ services like Threads and Bluesky are cropping up and how willing consumers appear to be to jump ship, with Threads rocketing to 100 million registrations in just five days. That said, it’s not like other efforts to drum up some additional cash, like increasing API pricing, have gone down especially well, either. It’s a bold strategy, Cotton — let’s see if it pays off for him.

    • Whiskey Pickle@lemmy.ml
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      for some reason, i don’t think that would stop him from trying anyway and then throwing a tantrum for being ineligible.

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        I’m not convinced the GOP wouldn’t nominate him, and that the current SCOTUS wouldn’t rule he was eligible to run.

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          Yeah, I get the feeling that he’d get nominated anyway and the stance would be “well we can’t do the whole election over again, so let them run”.

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          They would probably just yell out something about Obama and then simply declare him the president.

          Edit: Someone already said this 6 hours ago. Even other people see this ridiculous situation as totally possible.

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      I’m sure the Republicans would just come out of the woodwork and ask “Oh, but what about Obama, how come he can run for POTUS then?”. Which is, of course, something I already seen someone ask. Wasn’t even some old person from “different times” or whatever, this person genuinely just had no justifiable reason to be this racist.

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          To get access to Lesotho. That fully enclaved country has been protected long enough by South Africa and it’s time to let 🦅 Freedom™ 🇺🇲 ring.

          Next is Luxembourg and Vatican City. Pope better watch out for Uncle Sam.

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            Look, the US has far higher priorities than those small countries

            They really should take on Liechtenstein once and for all

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            Pope vs uncle Sam celebrity death match style for control of all Catholics. Make it happen people.