Twitter Will Finally Remove Legacy Blue Check Marks on April 20 49s3h Says Elon Musk

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By ANI | Updated: 12 April 2023 10:57 IST

Twitter Will Finally Remove Legacy Blue Check Marks on April 20, Says Elon Musk

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In the US, Twitter Blue costs $11 (roughly Rs. 900) a month

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Twitter Blue is priced at $114.99 (roughly Rs. 94,380,342 crores) a year
Recently Twitter changed the language in the description of verified
Twitter first introduced verified s in 2009

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Twitter s verified under the company's previous regime. "Final date for removing legacy Blue checks is 4/20," tweeted billionaire owner of Twitter, Musk. This means that if you have a legacy verified on Twitter with a blue mark, you will have to pay now to keep the checkmark.

The only s that will keep their blue checkmarks are those subscribed to Android s and $8 (approximately Rs. 650) a month or $84 (roughly Rs. 6,900) a year for web s.

Twitter previously announced that starting April 1, it would begin removing the blue check-mark badges from legacy verified s — those which the company had previously deemed to be notable and/or authentic — unless s have signed up for the Twitter Blue subscription service.

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On April 2, Twitter changed the language in the description of verified s to read, "This is verified because it's subscribed to Twitter Blue or is a legacy verified " -- which means you can't tell who is paying for a blue check-mark and who isn't.

Meanwhile, some celebs refused to pay for verification. LeBron James, the NBA star and entertainment producer, had tweeted on March 31, that his blue checkmark likely would be disappearing because he wouldn't pay for verification."Welp guess my blue [?] will be gone soon cause if you know me I ain't paying the 5. [?]," tweeted James, however @KingJames remains verified.

Musk is making the switch to paid verification in order to generate much-needed revenue for Twitter. Stephen King rejected the idea of paying for a blue checkmark ("F... that," King tweeted), Musk responded, "We need to pay the bills somehow!"

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Meanwhile, Twitter has launched a program for businesses and organizations to charge $1,000 (roughly Rs. 82,000) per month for verification badges (gold for brands, companies, and nonprofits; grey for governments).

Twitter first introduced verified s in 2009 to help s identify that celebrities, politicians, companies and brands, news organizations, and other s "of public interest" were genuine and not impostors or parody s. The company didn't previously charge for verification.

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