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 across the religious board, the Dalai Lama remained at one with his.
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