Why Twitter looks different, and what's changed (as of right now) – The Globe and Mail

Twitter logos outside the company’s offices in San Francisco, Calif., on Dec. 19, 2022.Jeff Chiu/The Associated PressSince Elon Musk’s takeover, Twitter has gone through many waves of significant changes. The company has faced firings and staff shortages, and the app itself has many new features that have been unveiled in the past year. While some have stuck, others have been modified or scrapped.If you’re finding it hard to keep up with the way Twitter works now, you’re definitely not alone. Here’s are some highlights of the latest with Twitter, as of April 24:Twitter BlueMany of Twitter’s high-profile users have lost the blue checkmarks that helped verify their identity and distinguish them from imposters on the Elon Musk-owned social media platform.After several false starts, the platform began removing the blue checks from accounts that don’t pay a monthly fee to Twitter Blue to keep them. Twitter had about 300,000 verified users under the original blue-check system – many of them journalists, athletes and public figures. The checks began disappearing from these users’ profiles late Thursday morning.Checkmarks were returned to some high-profile accounts a few days after the purge, such as those belonging to New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman, chef Anthony
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