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Elon Musk has changed Twitter. In addition to job cuts, he has changed the revenue model by moving from an advertising model to a user-based model. Verified users will pay US$8 to keep their blue check and the check will finally be available to the ordinary user on the street.

Some verified users changed their names on the platform to Elon Musk in an act of protest, but the real Musk has been quick to shut them down.

Musk wrote on Twitter on Monday that all handles engaging in impersonation without specifying they were a parody would be permanently suspended.

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