Ever since Elon Musk-owned twitter began its blue tick purge on Thursday, multiple people have lost their twitter verification tags. Among those are many Indian celebrities and politicians. Among the politicians who lost verified account status. Are west Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee, opposition leader Rahul Gandhi, Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal. Coming to actors, superstars like Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Shah Rukh Khan, Salman Khan, Deepika Padukone and Ram Charan...The actor in the film RRR. All of them have lost the blue tick on their twitter handles. If we talks of the sportspersons... Cricketer Virat Kohli, Olympic gold medalist Neeraj Chopra, former world champion boxer mc Nary Kom. Are among the high-profile names to lose the twitter-verified badges. It needs to be noted that these names are not only known in India but around the world. Each of these accounts have millions of followers. Many say that having a blue tick under the new system is no longer credible as now anyone can get it by a paying a monthly subscription.

Prominent personalities lose Blue Tick as Twitter begins purge

Elon Musk-owned Twitter started the process of removing legacy blue checkmarks from user profiles on Thursday. As soon as the exercise started, several big names, including Pope Francis, the head of the Catholic Church lost their blue tick.

Twitter restores Pope Francis' verified tick, albeit in new colour

Twitter removed "state-affiliated" and "government-funded" labels from media accounts, as per a review by AFP news agency on Friday. According to AFP, the news agency looked at a number of prominent pages on the platform and saw that many of the top media organisations from Western countries, Russia, China, and other nations that had previously used either of those tags no longer had them.

Twitter drops 'state-affiliated' labels from media accounts

Since a change to Twitter's venerable blue tick mark system went into effect on Thursday, the iconic blue tick verification symbol has vanished from a number of accounts. Notable users who have lost their verification include former US President Donald Trump and Pope Francis.

Many high-profile users lose verification symbol on Twitter

Twitter's inventor of the hashtags that are used to categorise messages has quit the platform, claiming Elon Musk mismanaged it. Following the loss of his verification badge, Chris Messina, who in 2007 suggested Twitter begin using hashtags to organise tweets by topic or event, said goodbye to the platform this weekend.

Chris Messina, inventor of hashtags, quits Twitter, blames Musk's mismanagement

Today, many woke up in shock as they saw their blue tick gone. After a lot of delays, the new Twitter policy came into effect today, and the verified blue tick from the accounts of legacy users like celebrities, media personalities, and others vanished on Twitter.

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Twitter is in a public spat with the Canadian broadcasting corporation. The public broadcaster pushed back against Twitter's move to label it "a 69% government funded media."

Canada's public broadcaster pauses Twitter use

After Elon Musk's Twitter takeover, there has been a rise in conspiracy theorists who were earlier banned from the microblogging platform for peddling their false narratives.

Musk giving a free pass to conspiracy theorists in monetisation push

Elon Musk-owned Twitter is seeking new avenues to raise money as well as bring more creators to the platform. The billionaire on Thursday informed that creators will be able to charge certain money from users to access their content, ranging from 'longform text to hours-long video'.

Musk unveils plan for creators to make money on Twitter, says platform will not keep any of it

Days after Twitter's owner Elon Musk merged Twitter into a newly-formed company called X Corp, his ambitions to convert the microblogging site into an "everything app" seem to be underway.

Twitter now a step closer to 'everything app', soon to be trading platform too

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Elon Musk clarified that he wasn't aware about BBC's documentary on Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and related posts that were taken down by Twitter, but commented on India's strict social media laws.

Elon Musk opens up on BBC documentary ban, calls Indian social media laws 'strict'

Twitter owner Elon Musk early Wednesday (April 12) set a final date for removing legacy blue checks from Twitter accounts verified under the social media giant's previous regime.

'4/20': Elon Musk sets final date for removing Twitter legacy blue checks

Billonaire entrepreneur and Twitter CEO Elon Musk is going ahead with his artificial intelligence development plans at Twitter despite publicly endorsing a halt on AI dvelopment, said reports in US media on Tuesday (April 11).

Musk developing AI at Twitter despite own appeal for global pause: Report

Elon Musk's Twitter is merged with Musk's "X" everything app, the Twitter ceo announced recently. Twitter secretly announced its demise in a court filing in the US. "Twitter Inc. no longer exists after merging with X Corp. The application stated that X Corp. is a privately held company that was incorporated in Nevada and has its main office in San Francisco, California.

Elon Musk merges Twitter with X Corp |

Twitter 'no longer exists' and has been merged with X Corp, according to court documents filed in California court on April 4, reported Bloomberg. This has begun speculation about Twitter owner Elon Musk's plans about the social media platform which he has said in past would ideally be converted into a 'everything app' X.

Twitter no more? Merged with X Corp; Musk raises hopes of ‘everything app’ named X

After being fired from the firm, Parag Agarwal, the former CEO of Twitter, filed a lawsuit against Twitter's Elon Musk, requesting compensation for the costs associated with the litigation, probes, and congressional hearings. They asserted that Twitter owes them more than $1 million and that Twitter is required by law to pay them.

Former CEO Parag Agarwal takes legal action against Elon Musk for unpaid legal expenses

Rinku Singh went bonkers in the last over with Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) requiring 29 for a win, in pursuit of 205, versus defending champions Gujarat Titans (GT) in match 13 of IPL 2023 on Sunday (April 10).

IPL 2023: SRK's tweet on KKR star Rinku Singh goes viral after thrilling win vs GT - See post

Twitter owner Elon Musk started following Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. In the list of 195 people Musk follows, PM Modi's name appeared on Monday. The screenshot of the list shared on the microblogging platform soon gained traction, raising questions if Tesla will soon make its way to India.

Elon Musk starts following PM Modi on Twitter

Social media giant Twitter described the British broadcaster BBC as "government-funded media" on its profile page. Britain's beloved national broadcaster has reached out to Twitter for clarification.

Social media giant Twitter labels BBC as 'government-funded media'

Twitter owner Elon Musk started following Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday. In the list of 195 people Musk follows, PM Modi's name appeared on Monday.

Elon Musk starts following Narendra Modi on Twitter, users wonder if Tesla's India days lie ahead

'Twitter Files' journalist Matt Taibbi is calling it quits from the microblogging website and parting ways with CEO Elon Musk after the rivalry between Substack and the platform deepened.

Matt Taibbi and Elon Musk split. What is the Substack-Twitter rivalry?

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