Anti-gun violence group March for Our Lives Founder David Hogg said Twitter should be giving out money to users with blue check marks. .“Verified people are a major reason why many people are on Twitter in the first place,” said Hogg in a Monday tweet. .“If anything they should be paying us.”.Hogg started up March for Our Lives after the 2018 Stoneman Douglas High School shooting. .Former Stoneman Douglas student Nikolas Cruz opened fire on students and staff inside the school. Cruz killed 17 people and injured 17 others. .The incident was the deadliest high school shooting in American history. Hogg and some of his friends were galvanized to speak out against gun violence. .Twitter CEO Elon Musk said on Monday he planned to eliminate one-quarter of the company’s workforce in his first round of layoffs and vowed to require users to pay to have a verified account. .READ MORE: Musk to lay off one-quarter of Twitter staff, charge for blue check mark.Musk allegedly issued an ultimatum to Twitter’s engineers, telling them to revamp its verification system in about one week or be terminated. .Hogg alleged a major reason Twitter has stagnated in user growth is because “it’s just not a great platform for people to post about their daily lives the way Instagram is.” He said it is most useful for journalists, politicians, and celebrities, with most of them being verified. .He said many social media platforms pay content creators. Twitter is one of the few that does not. .Musk completed his acquisition of Twitter on Thursday, taking chief ownership of the company. .“The bird is freed,” he said. .He fired Twitter’s CEO, chief financial officer, head of legal, and general counsel when he assumed command. His Twitter bio has been changed to read Chief Twit.
