I was one of the first people to take up Elon Musk’s offer to purchase a blue tick, the Twitter equivalent of VIP status. Not because I didn’t have a complimentary one – I did, believe it or not – but because if you sign up to Twitter Blue it means you can post videos on the site that are longer than a couple of minutes.
Poor Elon Musk then had to do a reverse ferret, announcing he’d be restoring the merit badges to a select few
I had noticed that my friend Konstantin Kisin had put up a speech he’d made at the Oxford Union and it was getting lots of views. I spoke in the same debate and gave what I thought was a much better speech, so wanted to put mine on Twitter, hoping it would prove even more popular. I asked him how he’d managed to get around the two-minute limit and he said you had to sign up to the premium service.
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