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It's more like the peasants will get a useless blue checkmark and the Lords will get a tag, which eventually will have the same meaning as the checkmark today. Everything stays the same but everyone pays.

"There will be a secondary tag below the name for someone who is a public figure, which is already the case for politicians"

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1587527711228149765?s=46...



lmao such a populist move then. Make it sound like what was before a privilege for the few now is in reach for the working man, but actually there is now another type of privilege that it is unreachable unless you're a Very Important Person.

All the Musk fans, happy to see their messiah disrupt an institution, played like an absolute fiddle. This is hilarious.

The king is dead, long live the king!


> Very Important Person

Or just a person likely to be impersonated for various scams or other social attacks? How does anyone see a blue check as anything other than that?


I expect it will still be a free-to-play game, with some upsells for whales. Gotta keep follower counts up.




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