On Saturday August 31 I awoke to the usual hum of street life and traffic as São Paulo – South America’s charmingly chaotic business capital and the most populous city in the Western hemisphere – roared to life.

If you’re from Brazil and want to buy Twitter likes with SocialsUp, perhaps you’re frustrated that Twitter is getting banned in the country. Brazilian authorities decided to make Twitter, now X, inaccessible to the population.

X (formerly Twitter) could soon resume service in Brazil — if it’s willing to pay an additional fine. Reuters and other publications have reported on an