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Elon paying  blue ticks Twitter users as one well-known user has already received $100,000.

Elon paying blue ticks Twitter users as one well-known user has already received $100,000.

Verified Twitter users are finally getting paid for their posts online with one popular profile already paid $100,000 (£76,275). The platform will now 'help people earn a living directly on Twitter' as it announced plans to kickstart monetisation features just last night. This scheme is only available to notable Twitter Blue subscribers, as creators will need to prove they received at least five million impressions on posts in the last three months. The platform explains that the impressions are a total tally of times a tweet has been viewed, and funds to support those who fit the bill will be…
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After ejecting migrants, bodies were discovered close to the border in Tunisia.

After ejecting migrants, bodies were discovered close to the border in Tunisia.

An official from a local court and a witness both confirmed on Tuesday to news agency AFP that locals in a border zone between Tunisia and Algeria had found at least two bodies thought to be migrants from Saharan regions. Nizar Eskander, the Tozeur Court's designated spokeswoman, told AFP that "We have initiated an investigative inquiry into the deaths after the discovery of the bodies of migrants from sub-Saharan nations. At least ten days had passed since the discovery of the first body, and the second was discovered on Monday. The two bodies belonged to young males, and we handed…
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