“The New York Times Magazine’s sponsored hype isn’t even interesting,” Musk says and their Twitter feed is “the equivalent of diarrhea” as he takes a swipe at the Gray Lady after she refuses to pay her $8 monthly verification fee.
- Elon Musk has criticized The New York Times for publishing boring “propaganda”.
- The attack comes as Twitter removed the gold check from the newspaper
- Musk has also dubbed his Twitter feed “diarrhea” because he posts regularly
Elon Musk launched another attack on The New York Times just as Twitter removed the post’s verification tag.
In multiple tweets, he said the post was guilty of posting boring “propaganda” and said his feed was like “diarrhea” because he tweeted so many times.
“The real tragedy of[The New York Times]is that its propaganda is not interesting,” Musk wrote early Sunday morning. And feeding them is the equivalent of Twitter diarrhea. “It is illegible,” he added.
This comes after Twitter announced that it would change its policy by removing the “old” check marks that have historically been given to verified public figures and accounts. The Times was among the first victims to lose its check mark on Sunday.
Last Thursday, the publication said it would not pay for a verified badge for its corporate accounts, including @nytimes. It also told all of its journalists that it would not reimburse them for the cost of checking their personal accounts unless it was necessary for reporting.
Elon Musk launched another attack on The New York Times just as Twitter removed the post’s verification tag
The original Times account has 54.9 million followers on Twitter and is the most prominent account to date to lose institutional verification to gold.
In multiple tweets early Sunday morning, he said the post was guilty of posting boring “propaganda” and said his feed was like “diarrhea” because he had posted so many tweets.
The original Times account has 54.9 million followers on Twitter and is the most prominent account to date to lose institutional verification from gold.
For a business to be verified on Twitter with a gold check mark, a payment of $1,000 per month is required. For individual users, the cost is $8 per month.
Musk extended his criticism of how the Times posted its Twitter feed to other posts as well. The Times would have a lot more real followers if they only published their most important articles. The same applies to all prints.
He was probably referring to the way she posts dozens of times on her Twitter page every day. On Saturday, her main account @nytimes posted about 80 tweets in one day.
Tweets almost always contain links to stories on their website, which is a widely adopted practice among digital publications to drive traffic to their sites.
The Washington Post’s Twitter profile, which kept the gold checkmark as of Sunday morning and has about 20 million followers, is posting a very similar volume of tweets.
On Sunday mornings, the New York Times’ primary Twitter profile, @nytimes, was no longer festooned with a gold checkmark.
The Washington Post, which has more than 20 million followers on Twitter, retained the gold checkmark as of Sunday morning.
A number of high-profile figures have come out since Twitter’s announcement to say they will not pay verification fees.
Basketball player LeBron James said Friday that he will not pay the $8 fee. He tweeted: “Welp guess my blue ticks are going to be gone soon because if you knew me I wouldn’t pay all five.”
James incorrectly thought it would cost him five dollars but the price is actually eight – and the feature called “Twitter Blue” is already available to users who are willing to pay for it.
Others, including Chrissy Teigen, Dionne Warwick, and rapper Ice-T, have suggested they wouldn’t pay for the feature.
Last week, Musk overtook Barack Obama as the most followed Twitter user — with 133.08 million followers compared to Obama’s 13.04 million.
This followed reports that the CEO of Twitter had ordered the company’s engineers to program the algorithm to “boost” his tweets.
