William Shatner, Monica Lewinsky and many other prolific Twitter commentators could soon lose the blue check marks.
They could get the marks back by paying up to US$11 a month. But some longtime users, including 92-year-oldlegend Shatner, have balked at buying the premium service championed by Twitter’s billionaire owner and chief executive Elon Musk.
After buying Twitter for US$44bil 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 and news reporters.
Shatner, known for his irreverent humour, also tagged Musk with a complaint about the promised changes. For now, those who still have the blue check but apparently haven’t paid the premium fee – a group that includes Beyoncé, Stephen King, Barack and Michelle Obama, Taylor Swift, Tucker Carlson, Drake and Musk himself – have messages appended to their profile saying it is a “legacy verified account. It may or may not be notable.”
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