Twitter checkmark chaos continues, with deceased celebrities and claims of fraud – 9to5Mac

Just when we thought the Twitter checkmark chaos was at an end, as Musk finally made good on his promise to remove them from legacy verified accounts, more U-turns have been made … Twitter checkmark chaos Musk had long said that all legacy verified Twitter accounts would lose their blue checkmarks if they didn’t subscribe to Twitter Blue. For a long time, nothing further happened, until Musk set a hard deadline of March 30. All verified accounts would lose their blue checkmark on that date if they didn’t subscribe to Twitter Blue. Companies were also told they had to pay a $1,000/month subscription or lose their gold checkmarks. While he appeared to consider this a threat, which would persuade verified account holders and businesses to sign up, it appears that almost none did. That deadline arrived, and … went. Nothing happened. Musk then set a new deadline of April 20. Again, however, I don’t know of a single verified account holder who signed up for Twitter Blue. Media organizations, too, said they wouldn’t be subscribing. But this time, at least, he did make good on the declared policy, and almost all verified accounts lost their blue checkmark. Almost all. Some
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