Celebrities who lost blue checks on Twitter include Beyoncé, Pope Francis, Oprah Winfrey, former President Donald Trump
Twitter has long been a way for people to keep track of tornado watches, train delays, news alerts or the latest crime warnings from their local police department.
While Twitter is now offering gold checks for “verified organizations” and grey checks for government organizations and their affiliates, it was not always clear why some accounts had them Friday and others did not. As a tornado was about to strike central New Jersey earlier this month, a go-to account for information was run by the National Weather Service branch in Mount Holly, New Jersey. It had a blue check at the time. It no longer has any check, though the main NWS account and some other regional branches now sport a grey check marking them as official accounts.
She added that while there’s been a lot of debate about what algorithmic curation means for how people see information on social media – versus a simple chronological timeline – Twitter’s blue check system introduces a third category of “economic curation.” For users who still had a blue check, a popup message indicated that the account “is verified because they are subscribed to Twitter Blue and verified their phone number.” Verifying a phone number simply means that the person has a phone number and they verified that they have access to it – it does not confirm the person’s identity.
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