AOC, LeBron James, Ben Shapiro get VIP treatment from Twitter: report

witter has a list of some three dozen “VIP users” that includes Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), basketball superstar LeBron James and Daily Wire founder Ben Shapiro, according to a report.

Elon Musk, the site’s new owner, who grew unhappy that his tweets were generating less engagement, ordered his software engineers to carve out a special category of “power users” whose tweets consistently remain visible, according to the Platformer tech news site (pay wall).

Naturally, Musk’s name was included in the “power users” list, which also counts President Biden, journalist Glenn Greenwald and YouTube personality MrBeast, Platformer reported.