The legacy of verified accounts on Twitter is changed now. Starting from Thursday, Elon Musk has revoked the blue checkmark, which is verifying accounts for free. Thousands of personalities like journalists, politicians, government officials, celebrities and sports persons lost their blue tick on Twitter.
The disappearance of the blue tick is creating confusion now. Musk has purchased Twitter for $44bn in 2022. Ever since he purchased it, he has been threatening to remove the legacy of blue checks. Now Twitter blue will cost you an $ 8-a-month subscription.
While few announced that they are going to leave the platform, few are getting ready to pay the amount for Bluetick.
The removal of the free verification process has raised many concerns as they are going through many fake profiles which will post fake information with a blue tick mark on Twitter profile.
Due to the latest development B town celebrities Shah Rukh Khan, Amitabh Bachchan, Alia Bhatt and politicians Yogi Adithynath, Rahul Gandhi, and Priyanka Gandhi lost their blue ticks. While coming to sports personalities, Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma lost their blue tick.
From April 1st Twitter going to wind up their legacy of verified program and remove verified checkmarks and will keep only blue checkmarks, where anyone can sign up.