Elon Musk’s move to upend Twitter’s longstanding verification system is turning the platform’s iconic blue check marks into a polarizing symbol of his leadership for some of Twitter’s most prominent ...

Once a coveted status symbol, Twitter’s verification badge — which can be purchased for a monthly fee — is no longer fashionable, according to some users. By Callie Holtermann and Lora Kelley ...

As Twitter carefully curated its verified accounts, ensuring only those who met specific criteria received the badge, the blue check mark gave them a sense of prestige and trust. Recent developments, ...

What do Twitter’s blue check marks signify? After this weekend, it’s increasingly difficult to figure out. On Thursday, Elon Musk’s Twitter finally followed through on its plan to remove blue ...

The Twitter Blue Checkmark is seen in this photo illustration in Warsaw, Poland on 21 September, 2022. Twitter management has announced the introduction of a new verification label to replace the blue ...

When Elon Musk took over Twitter last year, one of the first changes the company made was to the Blue Check system. The Blue Check was originally put in place to correctly identify to users that ...

Free blue checks appear to be back on X just months after billionaire Elon Musk axed them in favor of a paid subscription model, though many users are unhappy to have Twitter’s formerly coveted ...

It appears that Elon Musk has finally (mostly) given up on trying to make paid blue checks on X a thing. This week, X users with large followings were surprised to see that their blue checks — which ...

Almost a year since blue check marks disappeared from some large, influential accounts on X (formerly Twitter), they have started to return. On Wednesday, some individuals with large followings ...

Some VIP Twitter users woke up on Saturday expecting to have lost their coveted blue verification check marks in a previously announced purge by Elon Musk. Instead, Twitter appeared to target a single ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. X, the site formerly known as Twitter, is now letting its Blue subscribers hide the once coveted ...

Twitter has begun a wide-scale process of removing the blue check marks from verified account holders, a large swath of the platform’s most high-profile users including journalists, celebrities and ...