Blue Is Beautiful Blue Is Best Unless Its A Blue Tick On Twitter

6th November 2022

The news if full of the launch of the Blue Tick for users of Twitter who want to have verification. For older generations might recall The Magic Roundabout's "Dougal and the Blue Cat" story with the famous line that has tended to be with you for the rest of your life.

Will the Blue Tick for Twitter last as long as the memories of the Magic Roundabout that played each evening before the BBC news at 6.00pm.

Twitter has launched a subscription service allowing users to buy blue-tick verification for a monthly fee of $7.99 (£7) in a significant change under its new owner, Elon Musk.

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Ah maybe not - time for bed Zebedee!!!!!!!

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In the Twitterati
Some people get ratti
Some just get chatty

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Does it Matter? Alice in Wonderland might suggest something
'Come, it's pleased so far,' thought Alice, and she went on. 'Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?'
'That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,' said the Cat.
'I don't much care where--' said Alice.
'Then it doesn't matter which way you go,'said the Cat.
'--so long as I get SOMEWHERE,' Alice added as an explanation.
'Oh, you're sure to do that,' said the Cat, 'if you only walk long enough.'
Alice felt that this could not be denied, so she tried another question. 'What sort of people live about here?'
'In THAT direction,' the Cat said, waving its right paw round, 'lives a Hatter: and in THAT direction,' waving the other paw, 'lives a March Hare. Visit either you like: they're both mad.'
'But I don't want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked.
'Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat: 'we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad.'
'How do you know I'm mad?' said Alice.
'You must be,' said the Cat, `or you wouldn't have come here.'
Alice didn't think that proved it at all; however, she went on 'And how do you know that you're mad?'

Apologies to Lewis Carroll but he may have appreciated the topsy turvy world.......

Musings
A man whose deep pockets are endless
Is sacking staff, more or less
Take the latest; a tick
About security, whose aim
In reality is big bucks