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Twitter ‘blue’ is here: “I love being unofficial and unverified”

Twitter ‘blue’ is here: “I love being unofficial and unverified”
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After Elon Musk and Twitter announced earlier this year that ‘Twitter Blue’ would be in place, a system requiring to pay to be verified, users were not happy.

As the new subscription system officially started this week, celebrities and public figures took to the platform to express their discontent… in the funniest ways.

While some were disappointed by the loss of their little blue check marks, others saw this as an opportunity to rather laugh a little.

Here are some of the best reactions on Twitter:

Whether users were happy or not about this, they definitely made it show.

What do you think, Montreal? Would you pay to obtain verification on Twitter? 

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