w that thought takes a little, you have to sort of bounce that around your head a little bit before it makes sense. Like the first time I read it was like I don't know. But then you bounce it around a little bit, you're like, oh yeah, I can see it now. Which is a typical Naval comment. Like he's a little bit ahead of where your brain is, so it takes you there. And I can see that because the thing that the public doesn't understand is how important Twitter is to journalists. Twitter is really the journalist's social media, wouldn't you say? You know, Facebook is the mom social media. You know, LinkedIn is the business person's. Instagram is for narcissists and people who would like to be narcissists and want to be narcissists. But Twitter is basically the news journalist place. And if the journalists lose their rank within Twitter, what will they do? Would they become less important? I don't know.

I feel like here's what I think. Here's my prediction: that the blue check, if it goes away and becomes anything that people can buy, then people will just look at your follower account instead and it ends up being the same thing. Am I wrong? How many of you look at the follower account to decide how to interpret the tweet? I'm not the only one who does that, right? I definitely do that. Yeah, yeah. So I think that I was just speaking for myself and maybe some of you too. The blue check was only a proxy for the follower count. Now it wasn't a perfect proxy because sometimes somebody new would be building an audience and they're not there yet, but you could tell if it's a building audience. I feel like the user account is the only thing that