TechScape: Elon Musk promised to take away the blue ticks – so why hasn’t he?

In this week’s newsletter: After weeks of warnings, Twitter appears to have backed down on plans to do away with one of Musk’s original obsessions.Don’t get TechScape delivered to your inbox? Sign up hereFor weeks, Twitter has been promising that it would be ending its “legacy” verification programme – the one that actually verifies users – and stripping the status from any user who didn’t pay.Although the cut-off for the switchover was 1 April, th