Twitter begins removing blue checks from high-profile users
Many of Twitter’s high-profile users are losing the blue check marks that helped verify their identity and distinguish them from impostors on the Elon Musk-owned social media platform.
High-profile users who lost their blue checks Thursday included Beyonce, Pope Francis and former President Donald Trump.Story continues below advertisement Celebrity users, from basketball star LeBron James to Star Trek’s William Shatner, have balked at joining — although on Thursday, James’s blue check indicated that the account paid for verification. Seinfeld actor Jason Alexander pledged to leave the platform if Musk takes his blue check away.
After buying Twitter for $44 billion in October, Musk has been trying to boost the struggling platform’s revenue by pushing more people to pay for a premium subscription. But his move also reflects his assertion that the blue verification marks have become an undeserved or “corrupt” status symbol for elite personalities, news reporters and others granted verification for free by Twitter’s previous leadership.
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