The MVP program has become a marketing program to encourage becoming unpaid shills of Microsoft and MS products, where the best way in is to evangelize and write articles and tweets promoting Azure. Your social media presence is more of a factor for determining membership than any technical prowess.
They've even used it to encourage members (behind closed doors) to shill Microsoft links [1].
They've even used it to encourage members (behind closed doors) to shill Microsoft links [1].
[1] https://twitter.com/rickasaurus/status/636269822595235840