On Thursday, the platform started to remove the blue check from all accounts without a paid subscription. For at least $8 a month, users can have a verified Twitter Blue account.
company began removing blue check verification today from accounts that didn’t pay for a subscription. says the blue check had become an elitist status symbol, so he made it available to everyone and some people agree with him, but his critics say the new service is just about money, and they're not going to pay. "I think it should probably be free, like grandfathered in. Like how it was," said Alissa, from Los Gatos.
"But if he has to make money because he put $40 billion into it, it’s his right to make some money," said David Javid, a local business owner in Los Gatos. "Especially the verification, was really important because it meant that if you as a person reporting on something, or you just as a user, shared something from someone with a blue check mark, you could be sure it was from who they said they were," said Katharine Trendacosta, from Electronic Frontier Foundation.
At least one San Francisco Board Supervisor says she won’t pay for verification and has decided to leave Twitter altogether.
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