LOS ANGELES: Elon Musk's long promised move to strip free blue ticks from Twitter users swung into action on Thursday, dividing the have-paids from the have-nots. Like some kind of fable in which the chosen few ascend to a higher plane, accounts with a Twitter Verified check began rising above the rest — a rapture that left most of us behind.
LOS ANGELES: Elon Musk's long promised move to strip free blue ticks from Twitter users swung into action on Thursday, dividing the have-paids from the have-nots.Like some kind of fable in which the chosen few ascend to a higher plane, accounts with a Twitter Verified check began rising above the rest — a rapture that left most of us behind. Casualty number one: The Pope, the faith of whose 18.8 million will be tested by the absence of a blue badge on the @Pontifex account.
But it wasn't just the chatterati and the hoi polloi who found themselves uncovered.Bona fide celebrities with huge followings were going about the Twitterverse unclothed.Horror for Stephen King Singer Selena Gomez and her 67 million followers: out of tune.Basketball wizard Steph Curry : out of bounds.But almost as if there was some grand plan, some scheme to bring order and balance to the universe, each action appeared to have an opposite reaction.
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