Elon just went through several bad ideas to come back to the original checkmark system from 2015. The left think they just played him.
A radio station was replacing their popular DJs but knew there would be backlash. So, the new DJs pretended to be hosts for new trial DJs that were awful. Soon people were demanding the new DJs stay in charge.
I get the feeling that just happened. Did Elon do that, or was it happenstance?
I have a feeling some of it is he played them, thanks to the blue checkmarks system this week, a big pharma company just had 5% or 20 billion dollars wiped off their share price so companies were probably begging Elon to go back to the 2015 system.
If I am a vindictive, slightly machiavellian man (which I am) Elon knew this would happen, let it happen as a message to say 'you can take your ads but I can hurt you WAY more than you think you can hurt me'
That's a good way to view it.
If your share prices are that volatile that a fake message can tank the stocks I don't want to know how fragile your business is.