First of all they aren't charging for verification they are giving no verification and simply charging for a blue check.

If you don't know if the account is a celebrity or an impostor why would follow Virat Kholi or Justin bieber? Why would celebs even want a platform full of fake accounts with blue ticks of them without a way to distinguish?

And it gets even more chutiya. Many small advertisers like me run only small budget campaigns of $20. Now elon is forcing all of us to have a $100 blue tick as well just to advertise. Also twitter has always had very bad conversion rates as is. Imaging paying someone just to pay them more 😂😂😂

Elon Baba is truly a genius business man

https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/21/twitter-seemingly-now-requires-all-advertisers-to-have-a-verified-checkmark/amp/