Elon Musk Is Giving Dead Celebrities Twitter Blue Checkmarks

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Elon Musk Gave Chadwick Boseman, Kobe Bryant, Anthony Bourdain, and Paul Walker Blue Checkmarks

or loved ones, so there is a possibility that someone could have paid for Twitter Blue for their accounts. Gizmodo reached out to the Paul Walker Foundation and the Chadwick Boseman Foundation for the Arts for comment but didn’t immediately hear back. We also reached out to Twitter’s press office but received a poop emoji in response.

As for why Musk childishly decided to put unwanted blue checkmarks on celebrities over the weekend, the answer appears In short, the blue checkmark has quickly become the most embarrassing cringe object online. According to, an independent researcher and programmer, there were only 28 new Twitter Blue signups after Musk started taking away legacy blue checkmarks last week. Brown said he verified the number with his Twitter API account.

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