Saturday’s deadline to pay for blue checkmarks has passed and the blue ticks are still there, with a new disclaimer.
Elon Musk also said that starting 15 April, only verified accounts will appear in Twitter’s For You feed that recommends what tweets people see.Twitter CEO Elon Musk had announced that all of Twitter's blue checkmarks for notable individuals would be taken away until they subscribed to Twitter Blue on 1 April, but the checkmarks are still there.
Musk’s goal was to shove the advertising-dependent platform he bought for $44 billion last year into a pay-to-play model – and maybe antagonise some enemies and fellow elites in the process. Now, Darling finally got a blue check after paying $11 last month to try out some of the features that come with a Twitter Blue subscription. But seeing it becoming more of a “scarlet letter” under Musk than a symbol of credibility, he used a technique to scrub the blue tick from his profile.
“I don’t want Twitter to be pay-for-play. I want it to be a place where people writing interesting tweets are getting the engagement,” he said.Instead of taking away the blue checkmarks, Twitter on Sunday began appending a new message to profiles: “This account is verified because it’s subscribed to Twitter blue or is a legacy verified account.”