Twitter removes legacy verified blue ticks from all accounts
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Twitter removedlegacy verified blue ticks from all accounts on Thursday, April 20. From now on, only the accounts subscribed to paid Twitter Blue verification service would have blue ticks on the micro-blogging platform, widely described as "town square" of modern world.
The company initially announced plans to remove the legacy blue ticks on April 1, but the change applied to select accounts.Last week, Musk tweeted that the "final date for removing legacy Blue checks is 4/20," a date with special resonance to the billionaire entrepreneur given its meaning to marijuana enthusiasts.
Immediately following the disappearance of legacy blue checks, some users began tweeting that they planned to leave the site.
Numerous high profile accounts, including Pope Francis, Bill Gates, former US president Donald Trump, Kim Kardashian, Lady Gaga and more lost their blue verification checkmark.
However, Barack Obama, who has the most followers after Musk with 132.8 million retained his. This is because Obama's account is affiliated to the Barack and Michelle Obama office.
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Shah Rukh Khan, Amitabh Bachchan, Taylor Swift, Ellen DeGeneres, and Britney Spears, too lost their blue checkmarks.
Accounts with blue ticks belong to the persons who have paid for it by subscribing to Twitter Blue.
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The coveted blue check mark was previously reserved for verified accounts of politicians, famous personalities, journalists and other public figures. But soon after Elon Musk took over as Twitter owner last November, a paid monthly subscription model, open to all, was rolled out.
Twitter legacy checkmark removal: What is means?
For Twitter, this is expected to result in more people subscribing to Twitter Blue, and thus the increased revenues. But for platform's global 'town square' credentials the change threatens to create greater risk of impersonation of users of importance over the veracity of information on the platform.
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