Twitter Finally Axes All “Legacy” Blue Check Marks

The Verge reports:

Elon Musk is finally confiscating your blue checkmark. Well, that’s unless you pay the ransom for “Twitter Blue” — a toll booth designed to ignore people’s contributions to the platform except for the fact that they are all equally paying customers.

Business and government organizations can still apply for verified status, but let’s be real: all of this is still subject to the capricious whims of Musk, who has recently targeted newsrooms like BBC and NPR with dubious labels suggesting that they are compromised propaganda outlets.

Musk’s general attitude toward journalists is grim, and removing legacy verification remains a spiteful effort to undermine anyone who is critical of the billionaire and his enterprises.

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Blue check gone. If you see tweets from me featuring cats, you will know that I have been hacked. pic.twitter.com/dwIUtbCVp0

— Charlie Sykes (@SykesCharlie) April 20, 2023

I’ll only subscribe to Twitter Blue if Elon Musk sends Marjorie Taylor Greene on a one way ticket to Mars.

— David Weissman (@davidmweissman) April 20, 2023

My blue check is gone ……… but I can make fun of people with blue checks now pic.twitter.com/FInrzi9k6O

— Josh Billinson (@jbillinson) April 20, 2023

It is amazing how within a few months Elon Musk turned the blue check mark from a “status symbol” to “THIS MF’ER PAID FOR TWITTER”. It has become an object of utter mockery.

Quite a remarkable achievement really. https://t.co/3jLAILUN5U

— W. Kamau Bell (@wkamaubell) April 20, 2023

No blue check, still feel like me.

— Ben Stiller (@BenStiller) April 20, 2023

What is the world coming to? Drake, Beyoncé and, yes, even Pope Francis have all been left blue check-less. https://t.co/7VJ32y0PuN

— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) April 20, 2023

SCOOP: Elon Musk is no longer removing legacy blue checks, but instead will require all users to post at least one tweet a week discussing a quality of his they admire in order to maintain active accounts on the platform.

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 20, 2023

the wildest part of this twitter blue check story is that Ginni Thomas tried to overthrow our government and Clarence Thomas is a corrupt bought-and-paid-for judge and they’re both getting away with it

— Jeff Tiedrich (@itsJeffTiedrich) April 20, 2023

As a 10+ year veteran of the Unverified Left, if you’re a legacy lib who lost your blue check today, bottle that anger and report to me for orientation. We have a revolution to plan.

— Fifty Shades of Whey (@davenewworld_2) April 20, 2023

4/20 to-do list:

remove blue checks

launch non-exploding rocket

— Sam Adams (@SamuelAAdams) April 20, 2023