He did, he really did! Elon Musk removed the blue verification checkboxes from accounts that are not registered to the service Twitter Blue. But it seems that users didn’t care one bit.
The CEO had threatened for months to remove verifications from accounts that didn’t pay $8. This April 20 he fulfilled it.
Users started noticing that they no longer had official verification since Thursday afternoon. Prominent users like Pope Francis, Taylor Swift, Rosalía, Dalasreview and other internet figures are no longer verified.
Twitter’s blue popcorn is gone and people make fun of memes
Now that verifications are gone, it’s unclear Musk’s strategy for giving the platform legitimacy if most users don’t sign up for Blue. What’s worse, users really don’t seem to want to pay $8 a month (144 Mexican pesos).
And because the internet is the internet, tweeters responded to the disappearance of their popcorn with memes:
If you’re interested in having your blue tick, you can pay $8 for the Twitter Blue service to be able to send 280-character messages, edit tweets, and upload videos of up to 1 minute in length.
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