![]() Whether or not Twitter is even capable of successfully revoking badges en masse in the coming days, Musk will have at least succeeded in changing what it means to be a Blue Check once and for all. Musk has been threatening to do this since pretty much the beginning of his Twitter tenure, with his official reasoning alternating between “ treating everyone equally” and like, keeping AI bots marginally at bay I can’t imagine the company’s dire revenue woes have anything to do with it. After Twitter Blue’s spluttery roll out last fall, which was supposed to convince everyone to fork over $8 per month (now down to $7?) to obtain or keep their verified badge, the company announced earlier this week that the legacy verified program will start winding down this weekend-as in, removing legacy check marks users held for free prior to Elon Musk’s takeover of the social platform. ![]() ![]() Here it comes! At last! Maybe! Supposedly on April 1, which is definitely not a calendrically convenient date chosen in case none of this works out and it can be chalked up as an April Fool’s joke, Twitter will begin the forewarned “blue check” purge.
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