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Due to Musk's share sales, which have totaled at least $15 billion, investors originally deserted Tesla. With $13 billion in loans and a $33.5 billion equity investment, he completed the $44 billion deal last month.
Twitter: According to products executive Esther Crawford, not all previously verified accounts will receive the "Official" badge, and the label is not for sale.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a congresswoman from New York, was made fun of by Elon Musk by sharing a picture of a T-shirt that read, "Your criticism is appreciated, now pay $8."
On November 1, the Twitter CEO stated that blue tick would cost $8 in a series of tweets.
Following Musk's takeover, Twitter fired almost 3,700 staff through email on Friday in an effort to reduce costs.
Elon Musk stated that this will be made clear as a requirement for joining Twitter Blue and that any name change would result in a temporary loss of the verified checkmark.
Musk also made fun of Twitter's search feature and promised that his company would improve it.
Twitter users must pay $8 per month to Elon Musk in order to maintain their verification checkmarks.
According to the report, Twitter employees claim the company is firing staff without giving them adequate notice in violation of federal and California law.
In the email, Twitter stated that all badge access would be suspended and that its offices would be temporarily closed.
Elon Musk intends to change Twitter's current policy of allowing staff to work remotely by requesting that they come into the company's offices.
Elon Musk has more updates planned for the Twitter Blue subscription service, including adding user authentication as a premium feature.
Musk tweeted, "This is just temporary," in response to a post by Tesmanian.com journalist Eva Fox.
If US media stories about the billionaire's firing spree are accurate, he fired the top executives of the largest microblogging website in the world on the first day of his acquisition of Twitter.
The decision to bring back Vine was overwhelmingly endorsed by Twitter users.
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