How Elon Musk transformed Twitter’s blue check from status symbol into a badge of shame ... Twitter Verified account seen in an iPhone screen in Vancouver, Canada, on Dec. 9 2022.

Business Twitter’s blue check: Vital verification or status symbol? While many verified users on Twitter are famous, there are also community activists, journalists at small newspapers and ...

Max Collins, who runs the popular Twitter account for rock band Eve 6 and is blocking blue checks, said in an email that he now associates the symbol with “people who are really into crypto and ...

While once a Twitter checkmark was a verification symbol, now it can mean someone paid for Twitter Blue. Here's how to use Shortcuts to work out if an account is genuine or willing to pay.

Elon Musk, the owner of the social media service, has begun to charge a subscription fee for the verification symbol. By Kate Conger SAN FRANCISCO — Twitter began removing check mark icons from ...

But having a verified account on Twitter has become a status symbol that confers perks such as appearing at the top of searches. "Verification has long been perceived as an endorsement," Twitter ...

Twitter made a big change this week when it started allowing users to apply for Twitter verification, a status symbol in the form of a blue badge with a white check mark that is usually reserved ...

First account is the verified official one. Second is a $8 fake thanks to the Musk subscription. Easy to tell when you look at the follower count, very, very hard to tell when shared into your feed.

This week, Twitter verified the account of Jason Kessler who, after the death of Heather Heyer, tweeted that Heyer was a "fat, ... hate symbols and speech and tweets that glorify violence.

The story of Twitter's blue checkmarks — a simple verification system that's come to be viewed as an elite status symbol — began with some high-profile impersonations, just as the site began ...