Check marks are WhatsApp's version of read receipts. When you send a message to another user, one or two check marks will appear after the text to let you know whether it's been successfully sent.

The check marks will be added to the emails of senders who've adopted Google's Brand Indicators for Message Identification, or BIMI, standard.

The check mark has at times been decried as just another status symbol, a way for people to earn clout. But it’s also been used to confirm that account holders are indeed who they say they are.

Almost a year since blue check marks disappeared from some large, influential accounts on X (formerly Twitter), they have started to return. On Wednesday, some individuals with large followings ...

Tumblr diehards do not want the site to be a landing pad for the normies. As Ryan Broderick reported in his newsletter, Garbage Day, last week, they have busied themselves posting “cringe” in ...

Welp guess my blue ️ will be gone soon cause if you know me I ain’t paying the 5. 路 ‍♂️ — LeBron James (@KingJames) March 31, 2023 But James still has his blue check mark.

Topline. Twitter re-verified many users with massive followings over the weekend, just days after purging the site's famed blue verification check marks from accounts that don’t pay for Twitter ...

The check mark verification program was first introduced after baseball legend Tony La Russa filed a lawsuit against Twitter back in 2009 over an impersonator.

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 ...