Twitter was supposed to formally remove the legacy verification checkmark on April 1. While it appears to be putting those plans on hold for now, the Elon Musk-led social network was put under the checkmark. All those who changed the label and earned it, and paid for it.
When a user taps or clicks the blue check mark, the label now says “This account is verified because it’s on Twitter Blue or is a traditional verified account.”
After Twitter introduced verification with its Blue subscription plan, a label for a legacy verified account said, “This is a legacy verified account. It may or may not be worth noting.” ‘s label read, “This account is on Twitter Blue and has been verified.”
This allowed us to distinguish between the two verified accounts. However, this new signature makes it difficult to separate the two different verifications to identify the account of interest.
Over the weekend, the New York Times also lost verified checks after refusing to pay for verification services. In reply to the user who posted the Said“Okay, we take it off.”
In recent days, a number of celebrities, including LeBron James, Patrick Mahomes II, Darius Slay, Monica Lewinsky, and William Shatner, have said they won’t pay for Checkmark.
Reporter Matt Binder It pointed out Musk deleted the tweet, saying Twitter will give traditional verified account holders “a few weeks” to join Twitter Blue before removing the verification mark from those who don’t pay. The deleted tweet also said the social network would remove the checkmark if the account specifically refused to pay Twitter Blue.
Musk has promised that starting April 15th, the timeline of the “For You” algorithm will only show verified accounts, along with accounts that users are following.Over the weekend, Tesla’s CEO said Twitter will soon Add confirmation date to your user profile.
The social network is also reportedly working on a government ID verification feature for Blue subscribers. hide check mark.
