There are about 300k verified Twitter accounts. If every single account opted to pay this fee, this would bring in about $18m in revenue yearly. That’s enough to pay off the $44B purchance price in slightly less than 2500 years. https://t.co/9SQElZNGoD

— Emily GPU prices (@EmilyGorcenski) October 30, 2022

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If every account followed by @verified subscribes b/c of this shakedown, that’s $26M/year.

Musk owes $1B/year in interest.

Not sure this is the magical solution.

(And the risk of chasing verified users off the platform and confusing everyone seems…. not worth $26M/year.) https://t.co/QcXF0zG5jo pic.twitter.com/vRrIn5iGS4

— Brendan Nyhan (@BrendanNyhan) October 31, 2022