Comment on Twitter Has Stopped Showing Ads To Its Most Valuable Users

Michael Grothaus, Fast Company
Tue, 01/26/2016 - 5:15am

Twitter Has Stopped Showing Ads To Its Most Valuable Users

Move over blue verified checkmark, an ad-free timeline is the new status symbol.For years the most coveted status you could attain on Twitter was verification. People who are "verified" by Twitter have a blue checkmark over their profile picture, which means that the social media giant deems you a very important person: a politician, actor, musician, even a journalist (but not all journalists…).

 

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