With over 8 million followers on Twitter, Mark Cuban is among the most adopted traders and entrepreneurs on the platform. The investor, entrepreneur and NBA crew proprietor is thought to voice his opinions on numerous matters sometimes and not too long ago shared how he feels about Elon Musk. 

• What Occurred: Final Thursday, Twitter eliminated legacy verified blue checkmarks from accounts on the social media platform, prompting sturdy reactions from customers and a handful of celebrities.
• Cuban took to Twitter to share what went mistaken with the elimination of legacy blue checkmarks and what might have been achieved in a different way.
• “There have been 100 methods @elonmusk might have requested legacy checks for $100. Egalitarianism was the worst of all of them. It’s  [Coke] stage,” Cuban tweeted, giving the next methods Twitter might have requested customers to pay for the checkmarks. 
• “Hey Mark, we all know individuals attempt to impersonate you or mis-use your picture. Our AI will monitor accounts to guard your model. $100 per 12 months. Bought. Saves me problem and authorized charges.”
• “Hey Mark, we’ve got a program for superstar entrepreneurs. To your portfolio corporations, we are going to do a evaluate to substantiate your funding and provides them a blue verify $100. For a further $1k we are going to supply them a particular promotion that will get them on a particular For You Web page.”
• “Hey Mark, as a part of our legacy verify mark program we’ve got a particular promotion for any non-profits you might be concerned with. As a part of our $100 ID Protections program we will provide you with $10K in promoted tweets to your face non-profit.”
• “Hey Mark, we noticed that there’s a new season of Shark Tank beginning. Are you able to let the producers know that we’ve got a particular $1k program the place we do the identical IP verification and safety and also will embody $10K of promoted tweets for the present. Please have them DM me right here.”
• “Oh and Mark, I forgot so as to add that as a part of the $100 program, you get to jot down prolonged posts of as much as 2800 and shortly limitless characters, and get edit options and a lot extra. However in case you select to not be part of, you retain your verify and we thanks for making Twitter higher!”
• The tweets from Cuban got here in response to a debate between shut Musk ally and potential Twitter CEO candidate David Sacks and Field CEO Aaron Levie on whether or not organizations — reminiscent of sports activities groups, monetary corporations and Fortune 500 corporations —needs to be answerable for serving to to confirm their members on Twitter and masking the related prices. 
• Cuban went on to criticize the top of the legacy blue checkmark program.
• “Elon Musk will get to select and select what he does. He doesn’t defer to anybody. This is the reason the method to legacy checks is a big mistake. You might be telling the largest celebs they don’t seem to be answerable for their likeness, Elon Musk is. This additionally applies to anybody that makes a dwelling off their private model. As Elon Musk goes, so goes their model,” he wrote.
• Replying to a response from one consumer who argued that the aim of the checkmark removing was to do away with a “class system,” Cuban tweeted, “When one particular person makes all the selections, moderately than the collective making the selections, by definition you might have a category system.”
• Associated Hyperlink: Elon Musk/Twitter Saga Started 1 Yr In the past Right this moment: What Occurred Since And What Might Be Subsequent

Why It’s Essential: Cuban’s feedback got here after he had requested Musk for help relating to a burner account on Twitter and a loss in followers. 

Cuban and Sacks beforehand went backwards and forwards on Twitter, together with over Musk’s resolution to unban Donald Trump’s account on the platform. 

Regardless of the criticism, Cuban seems to nonetheless be a fan of the platform.

“That stated, Twitter nonetheless is the perfect recreation on the town for thus many several types of communications. It’s scale and kind of interplay is exclusive and proper now irreplaceable. For those who have a look at Twitter on a 20 yr horizon, the previous 6mos are simply the preseason and it’s not exhausting to recapture what was,” Cuban tweeted.

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