With a mighty hand, and an outstretched arm, Musk scraps Pope's blue tick
In the same day that Elon Musk’s Twitter snubbed the Pope by removing his legacy blue tick despite personally paying for some celebrities to keep theirs, the billionaire’s personal fortune shrank by the biggest amount this year.to suggest the two things were linked but Musk – seen by some a deity sent down to save humanity and others as a genius asshole – might be playing with forces that, for once, are well out of his control.
The social media biz last night finally started to remove the symbol that was once seen as a platform verification of a user's identity. Now users or organizations are expected to payYet like much of the confusion that Musk has brought to Twitter, some retained their tick because Musk likes them or he simply didn’t want to see them leave the platform. One case in point is writer Stephen King, who last year“My Twitter account says I’ve subscribed to Twitter Blue.
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