Twitter’s Legacy Blue Checks Are Gone At Last, But Formally Verified Users Don’t Seem to Care

April 21, 2023 E Jazz Reporter

Twitter CEO Elon Musk has been threatening to remove “legacy” blue check marks for months. On April 20, the company finally did it.

Tomorrow, 4/20, we are removing legacy verified checkmarks. To remain verified on Twitter, individuals can sign up for Twitter Blue here: https://t.co/gzpCcwOXAX

Organizations can sign up for Verified Organizations here: https://t.co/YtPVNYypHU

— Twitter Verified (@verified) April 19, 2023

Legacy check users began to notice the change on Thursday afternoon. Celebrities from Kim Kardashian (75.1 million followers) to Selena Gomez (65 million) now have no official verification.

» …

← ‘There’s This Fear That Everything Will Crash’: Home Prices Are Falling, But There’s Still a Lack of Listings
‘That’s the Tim Duncan part’: Why the Nets believe Mikal Bridges is the answer to their failed superteam experiment →