Twitter claims ‘legacy’ blue checkmarks will start to disappear on April Fools’ Day
by Jay Peters from The Verge - All Posts on (#6A4CR)
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter has announced that it'll start winding down" its legacy verified program and removing legacy verified checkmarks" starting on April 1st, and is telling users to subscribe to its Blue subscription if they want to keep their blue check.
There's a lot to unpack here. First, the announcement isn't necessarily a surprise. CEO Elon Musk has been promising to get rid of legacy" blue check marks, or verification badges that were given under Twitter's previous rules, since November, and he's reiterated that they'd be going away in coming months" several times. According to Musk, those verification badges were given out in a corrupt and nonsensical" manner (though they are in fact quite useful for letting users confirm that the...