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Twitter takes away legacy Blue ticks! SRK, Virat Kohli, Pope, more lose verification
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Twitter takes away legacy Blue ticks! SRK, Virat Kohli, Pope, more lose verification

[ad_1] After months of debate following CEO Elon Musk's announcement that legacy blue ticks will be disappearing, Twitter finally removed the verification for everyone who was not already subscribed to Twitter Blue yesterday, April 20. The move, which has received a generally negative response from the user base, came last night when several users tweeted about losing their verification mark. Many notable personalities, including the Pope, actor Shah Rukh Khan and Amitabh Bachchan, cricketer Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma, and political leaders such as UP CM Yogi Adityanath and Rahul Gandhi lost their verified status.While talks around removing legacy verification have been going on ever since Musk took over Twitter, however, due to backlash, the process was delayed. On April 11, Musk twe...
Shocking! Elon Musk calls Twitter Blue tick system Bullshit, but prices it at $8pm
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Shocking! Elon Musk calls Twitter Blue tick system Bullshit, but prices it at $8pm

[ad_1] Elon Musk has revealed that the Twitter blue tick verification badge on the platform will cost $8 per month. After days of speculations on whether the blue tick verification badge, a system developed by Twitter to distinguish influential people from fake accounts and pretenders, would become chargeable or not, the Twitter CEO has revealed his plans in a series of tweets confirming that the badge will indeed come at a monthly subscription fee. Some earlier reports had suggested the price to keep the blue tick in future might be as high as $20 (roughly Rs. 1600), Musk has confirmed that it will be kept at a lesser $8 (around Rs. 660). The announcement was received by the netizens with a generally negative reaction, with many stating that this move harms the creators for the platf...