WHY PAY $8.00 FOR TWITTER BLUE

The first thing I think you should understand about Elon Musk’s brief time as the owner of Twitter is that it’s a bit like if an English professor bought a dumpster on fire. Things weren’t going great already and, though an English professor might be smart, dumpster fires are not part of their expertise.

But as Musk has taken control of the platform and shaken things up radically – most notably with a plan to charge users $8.00 U.S. a month to be verified – it’s clear at the very least that change is in the air. What seems much less obvious is if

Musk will in fact save twitter or set it alight.

To recap: in April of this year Musk made an offer to buy Twitter at $52.40 a share. In July, however, he said he planned to terminate the deal, accusing Twitter of misrepresenting the state of the platform. Meanwhile, the market had tanked and the value of both Tesla and Twitter stock has dropped precipitously. Twitter countersued Musk to complete the deal and in September, many of Musk’s texts and messages were published as part of the legal proceedings. Then in October,