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"Likes Are Now Florps"

Elon Musk treats Twitter like a toy, and that's going to alienate his user base.

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Parker Molloy
Apr 10, 2023
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On Sunday, April 2, Twitter made it more difficult for users to distinguish between “blue check” or “verified” users who received the checkmark on their profile after having their identities verified by the site — Twitter had been referring to these as “legacy” verifications — and users whose identities had not actually been verified and …

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