Tesla investor calls Elon Musk a hypocrite for giving free blue ticks to celebs, says Twitter's end is near

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Twitter recently took away the blue ticks from legacy accounts that had been verified before Elon Musk assumed his role as the company's owner..

The move was long anticipated as back in November 2022, Musk had said that Twitter's blue tick would be coming at a price in the future..

Presently, anybody can buy the once-precious Blue Tick by paying a monthly fee to subscribe to Twitter Blue..

However, Musk, who had earlier made it clear that nobody would be verified without a Twitter Blue subscription, soon took a U-Turn and began returning the Blue Ticks to accounts with more than a million followers...

Twitter and Tesla's top investor Ross Gerber has called out Elon Musk on this and says that the Twitter boss is a 'hypocrite' and that all this chaos at Twitter is the 'beginning of an end' for the platform, reports Business Insider...

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