21-04-2023(Press Ki Taquat)-Twitter begins removing blue checkmark from legacy verified accounts Starting Thursday, the Elon Musk-owned microblogging platform began removing the coveted blue checkmark. This change was noticed by Twitter users sometime last night. As a result, thousands of journalists, politicians and government officials around the world have lost their Blue Ticks. Several users have also shared instances of blue ticks disappearing and reappearing on their profiles. Twitter has finally started to follow Elon Musk’s policy of removing all blue ticks that it takes months to keep them. They did not pay the fee. Twitter had more than 3,00,000 verified users under its former Blue-Tick scheme, and most of them were journalists, public figures, athletes, government officials and film stars.
Initially, Twitter was set to remove all blue ticks from April 1, however, it later retained legacy accounts with a pop-up message stating that the account was either a legacy verified or Twitter Blue was subscribed to. American author Stephen King who is known for His verbal spat on Twitter with Elon Musk, took to his account to reveal that he continued to tick blue despite not having subscribed to Twitter Blue. Twitter has finally started following Elon Musk’s policy of removing all blue ticks that didn’t pay a monthly fee to keep them. Twitter had more than 3,00,000 verified users under its former Blue-Tick scheme, and most of them were journalists, public figures, athletes, government officials and film stars.
