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Wales Online
Wales Online
National
Neil Shaw

How to join Mastodon, the Twitter alternative quickly attracting new users

Twitter users have been looking for alternatives to the social media platform since Elon Musk bought it for $44billion. Users are unhappy with a number of changes made already, and plans announced as Twitter is under new management.

That includes changes to moderation, changes to lifetime bans and allowing people to 'buy' a blue tick which verifies identities. Previously the blue tick was free - but had to be approved.

Now users will have to pay, and it appears anyone can have one.

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