Twitter celebs baulk at paying for blue check mark – Al Jazeera

After months of delay, Twitter owner Elon Musk is promising that Saturday is the deadline for people to pony up or lose their legacy status.Published On 28 Mar 202328 Mar 2023William Shatner, Monica Lewinsky and other prolific Twitter commentators — some household names, others little-known journalists — could soon be losing the blue check marks that helped verify their identity on the social media platform. They could get the marks back by paying up to $11 a month. But some longtime users, including 92-year-old Star Trek legend Shatner, have baulked at buying the premium service championed by Twitter’s billionaire owner and chief executive Elon Musk. After months of delay, Musk is gleefully promising that Saturday is the deadline for celebrities, journalists and others who had been verified for free to pony up or lose their legacy status. “It will be glorious,” he tweeted on Monday, in response to a Twitter user who noted that Saturday is also April Fools’ Day. After buying Twitter for $44bn in October, Musk has been trying to boost the struggling platform’s revenue by pushing more people to pay for a premium subscription. But his move also reflects his assertion that the blue verification marks have
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