For further clarification, would Eli Lilly care to list the *non-parody* price of insulin?

[ck4829]

A verified Twitter account posing as the pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly tweeted Thursday afternoon saying, "We are excited to announce that insulin is free now." The account, with the handle @EliLillyandCo, used the Eli Lilly logo and had a verified checkmark.

The tweet generated more than 1,500 retweets and stayed up for several hours before the account was locked by Twitter. Later in the evening, the account was unlocked. The Eli Lilly logo was removed. The checkmark remained on the desktop version of the site, but not on the app.

The real Eli Lilly Twitter account, @LillyPad, tweeted, "We apologize to those who have been served a misleading message from a fake Lilly account. Our official Twitter account is @LillyPad."

IndyStar reached out to Eli Lilly for comment. A spokesperson for the company said they "are aware of the fake account and in conversations with Twitter to address the matter."

https://www.indystar.com/story/news/2022/11/10/twitter-elon-musk-insulin-eli-lilly-fake-tweet/69639067007/

So, the non-parody price...

Wait, what?

[keithbvadu2]

1. For eight bucks, you too can become a multi-billion dollar company

[leftstreet]

2. lol Bring on the lawsuits! n/t

[intheflow]

3. OMG, this is the perfect response to the bogus account!

I hadn’t read the tweet, only the coverage, and it never occurred to me that they should have posted the actual cost. Kudos to whoever created that second bogus account.