Fake accounts, chaos and few sign-ups: the first day of Twitter Blue was messy

Elon Musk's attempt to make the social media site profitable seemed to flop as the verification check lost all meaning

Friday marked the first full day Twitter's new policies for verified accounts were applied - and the results were not pretty.

Twenty-four hours after blue checkmarks began to disappear from formerly verified Twitter accounts, chaos reigned on the website, with impersonation and false information running rampant and few people signing up for the service the changes were meant to promote.