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action or later. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 6.7.0.) in /home4/scienrds/scienceandnerds/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6114Source:https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2023\/03\/31\/celebrity-blue-check-twitter-verification\/<\/a><\/br> April 1 is the dumbest<\/a> day on the internet, and this year, it\u2019s not just because brands will try to prank you by selling \u201chot iced coffee.\u201d Starting on Saturday, Twitter will begin removing blue checks<\/a> from \u201clegacy verified\u201d users if they don\u2019t sign up for a Twitter Blue<\/a> subscription. This is part of new owner Elon Musk\u2019s grand plan to make Twitter profitable, but this particular scheme has a glaring issue: If anyone with $8 per month can get a blue check, the symbol won\u2019t be cool anymore (and also disinformation will proliferate<\/a>, but Musk doesn\u2019t seem super worried about that).<\/p>\n Twitter initially launched its verification system in 2009 to protect celebrities from impersonation. Someone made an account pretending to be former St. Louis Cardinals manager Tony La Russa, but instead of just asking for the account to be taken down, La Russa sued<\/a> Twitter. And so, the three-year-old company introduced<\/a> its iconic blue check badge.<\/p>\n Now, we\u2019ve come full circle. Celebrities are a day away from losing their verification badges, and you might think they would lament the loss of this symbol that was literally created to protect them. Unfortunately for Musk, paying for Twitter Blue is cheugy<\/a>, so some celebrities have spoken out to say that they won\u2019t be paying for a blue check.<\/p>\n At the beginning of the month, the musician Ice Spice weighed in: \u201c1M on here is heavy blue check wya :\u2019)\u201d<\/p>\n
\nCelebrities don\u2019t want to pay Elon for a blue check<\/br>
\n2023-03-31 21:43:35<\/br><\/p>\n