Tomorrow, 4/20, we’re eradicating legacy verified checkmarks. To stay verified on Twitter, people can join Twitter Blue right here: https://t.co/gzpCcwOXAX
Organizations can join Verified Organizations right here: https://t.co/YtPVNYypHU
— Twitter Verified (@verified) April 19, 2023
Legacy test customers started to note the change on Thursday afternoon. Celebrities from Kim Kardashian (75.1 million followers) to Selena Gomez (65 million) now don’t have any official verification. The Pope can also be out of luck.
they actually took his test pic.twitter.com/KSyBRvc12m
— Tim Hogan (@timjhogan) April 20, 2023
Though Musk promised advertisers the app wouldn’t flip right into a “free-for-all hellscape” final October, it is unclear how Twitter will keep a way of legitimacy.
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Twitter customers should purchase Twitter Blue for $8 a month. Along with a “blue test,” subscribers could have the power to craft Tweets longer than 280 characters, edit Tweets, and add movies as much as 60 minutes lengthy.
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Nonetheless, Twitter customers who misplaced their checks do not appear to thoughts.
Blue test gone… I really feel okay ???
— Garcelle Beauvais (@GarcelleB) April 20, 2023
bye blue test mark, the chaos continues.
— Andrew Horowitz (@adhorowi) April 20, 2023
I simply realized the blue test is gone. Bye. ?? pic.twitter.com/LK27xtq09b
— Robert Hernandez (@webjournalist) April 20, 2023
legacy verified blue checks are gone
‘Verified’ notifications are actually a spam filter! be at liberty to dam everybody in there pic.twitter.com/WpWiKCNXLw
— Matt Binder (@MattBinder) April 20, 2023
my blue test is gone pic.twitter.com/jmNOtdc0oD
— Carrie Courogen (@carriecourogen) April 20, 2023
