During that chaotic time, former Twitter employees told The Washington Post that Twitter could not distinguish legacy verified blue checks from Twitter Blue badges. Those employees likened the ...

— Twitter Verified (@verified) March 23, 2023 The timing of the change, April 1, and the 420,000 allegedly existing legacy verified accounts screams of Musk trolling, probably because it is.

Twitter strikes the New York Times’ verified badge on Elon Musk’s orders. The Times and other news organizations say they won’t pay for the icon, which is designed to protect against ...

Twitter said Wednesday it was offering an annual plan for its subscription service called Twitter Blue, which includes its sought-after "verified" badge, at a discount to its monthly price.

Days after Elon Musk’s Twitter purged blue check marks from VIP users and prominent organizations, the checks reappeared on the accounts of a number of high-profile figures, many of whom ...

"Verified" badges for users may soon become a paid feature of Twitter, sources told Platformer. Sources said there were internal talks of making verification a Twitter Blue feature following Musk ...

Twitter to Revoke ‘Legacy’ Verified Badges in April, Leaving Only Paying Subscribers With Blue Check-Marks Musk-owned social network also will start charging businesses and organizations ...

Topline. Verified users on Twitter may soon have to pay to retain their blue tick badges, according to a report by the Verge on Sunday, as the company’s new owner Elon Musk looks for new ways to ...

The criteria for a blue verification badge on Twitter used to be tied to qualifying as a public figure — now it’s anybody willing to pay 8 bucks a month, and their identity does not need to be ...

In case they choose not to pay for Twitter Blue, they’ll start to lose their verification badge. It has also been reported that Twitter would be planning to increase the Twitter Blue fee to $19. ...

However, it’s not clear if a verified phone number badge is a form of expression rather than a marker of a non-bot profile. Twitter is not the first platform to try self-verification.