He added a rat emoji to his display name on Twitter and encouraged other users to do the same. ... But to other users, the check mark has become a status symbol, unfairly reserved for a select group.

Twitter’s blue check mark was once a coveted status symbol. Now, some users are calling it “the dreaded mark” or that “stinking badge.” Last week, Twitter began stripping the ...

Slack’s new Emoji Reactions are my favorite thing ... We argued about what symbol we would use — a heart, a star, a thumbs-up, a check-mark. But then we realized that all these were ...

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 ...