Menlo Park, California (The Adobo Chronicles) – No one messes with a drag queen, and no one messes with Mark Zuckerberg either.

Just hours after Facebook issued an apology to drag queens and performers for requiring them to use only their real names in setting up their accounts, Zuckerberg announced that Facebook has closed a deal to buy out Ello for $10 Million.

Ello is the new, invite-only social networking site that was being touted as an ads-free alternative to Facebook without any restriction on the use of drag, pseudo or stage names. Many disgruntled Facebook account holders were migrating in droves to Ello in protest of the giant social netoworking site’s real names policy. Well, at least until Facebook apologized to the drag and performing communities.

Everyone is claiming victory. The drag queens are happy that they can now continue with or restore their pseudo names.  Facebook just got rid of a potential competitor. And the people behind Ello are $10 Million dollars richer.

All’s well that ends well.