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It would be possible to make this estimate more precise based on data we've collected, but I haven't had time. If anyone has internal information about current numbers, I'd be interested to hear it.\n\n## About this project\n\nThis repository is a continuation of a data collection project started by [Casey Ho](https://twitter.com/CaseyHo) and me ([Travis Brown](https://twitter.com/travisbrown))\nin November 2022.\n\nTwitter Blue was first launched on 5 November 2022, and had stopped accepting subscriptions\nby 11 November.\nThe Washington Post [reported](https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/11/16/musk-twitter-email-ultimatum-termination/) the following week that\n\"about 150,000 users\" had subscribed to the new Twitter Blue during those initial few days, based on information from an internal source.\n\nWe eventually identified 145,454 of those initial subscribers, building on an earlier list of 135k we had compiled that was\n[reviewed and verified](https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/11/16/musk-twitter-email-ultimatum-termination/) by the Washington Post.\nThis work was also cited in the [New York Times](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/11/23/technology/twitter-elon-musk-twitter-blue-check-verification.html),\n[Business Insider](https://www.businessinsider.com/an-estimated-140000-people-paid-twitter-blue-5-days-report-2022-11),\nand the SPLC's [Hatewatch](https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2022/11/16/twitter-blesses-extremists-paid-blue-checks).\n\n## Methodology\n\nWe compiled this list by combining two approaches.\nThe first uses a Twitter profile scraper that is one of the components of the [Hassreden-Tracker](https://github.com/travisbrown/hassreden-tracker) project,\nwhich was supported by [Prototype Fund](https://prototypefund.de/) in 2022.\nThe second involves searching the Twitter API for tweets by Twitter Blue subscribers,\nwith queries designed to cover areas of the Twitter graph that the first approach may miss (for example non-English-language accounts).\n\n## Format\n\nThe `data/accounts.csv` file has the following fields:\n\n1. Account ID\n2. Screen name\n3. Legacy verification status\n4. Follower count\n5. Date of first identification as Blue subscriber\n6. Timestamp of first identification as Blue subscriber\n7. Subscription status\n\nNote that the follower count may be less current than the status information\n(follower account updates happen separately and less often, since they affect most lines in the file,\nand make the more interesting parts of the change history less visible).\n\nThe legacy verification status will either be empty (no legacy verification) or one of the following values:\n\n* `B`: verified as a business account\n* `G`: verified as a government account\n* `V`: verified but verification type is not specified\n\nNote that affiliate verification is not tracked here.\n\nThe subscription status will be one of the following:\n\n* `B`: Subscribed to Twitter Blue\n* `U`: Unsubscribed\n* `S`: Permanently suspended\n* `D`: Self-deactivated\n\n","project_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Ftravisbrown%2Fblue","html_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/projects/github.com%2Ftravisbrown%2Fblue","lists_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Ftravisbrown%2Fblue/lists"}