Twitter Blue is out in full force, and with that comes the Twitter Blue defenders. Many people are roasting the poor naive Twitter users who have subscribed to this paid verification service, and they are getting a wee bit defensive about it. If I paid $8 a month for a practically worthless service, I, too, would get angry about being made fun of. One dude went viral for the oxymoron "I'm paying for free speech." Others exalt the new feature as a way to find community and boost your tweet's engagement. Unfortunately, having a blue check is too embarrassing for most people to bear, even for famous people like Stephen King and Jason Alexander, who were "gifted" verification and publically clarified that they did not pay for it.
One Twitter Blue defender reigns supreme over all the others. He is the one who either does not understand the value of eight dollars or the one whose bowels are beyond our scariest nightmares. His name is Jason Whitlock.
