After a delay, Twitter’s high-profile users and official government agencies are losing the blue checks.
“This is an authentic account representing the New York City Government,” posted @NYCGov, providing a link to a government website for verification.
Singer Dionne Warwick tweeted earlier in the week that the site’s verification system “is an absolute mess.”“The way Twitter is going anyone could be me now,” Warwick said. She had earlier vowed not to pay for Twitter Blue, saying the monthly fee “could be going toward my extra hot lattes”.For users who still had a blue check on Thursday, a popup message indicated that the account “is verified because they are subscribed to Twitter Blue and verified their phone number.
Musk’s move has riled up some high-profile users and pleased some right-wing figures and Musk fans who thought the marks were unfair. But it is not an obvious money-maker for the social media platform that has long relied on advertising for most of its revenue. Most “legacy blue checks,” including the accounts of politicians, activists and people who suddenly find themselves in the news, as well as little-known journalists at small publications around the globe, are not household names.
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