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Twitter Courts Chaos With Plan to Nix ‘Legacy’ Blue Checks on April Fool’s Day

FOOL ME ONCE...

If an account-holder wants their precious blue checkmark after that, they’ll have to fork over $8 a month.

AJ McDougall
AJ McDougall 

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AJ McDougall

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