Once upon a time, not too long ago, the blue checkmark was one of the most sought-after symbols on social media. It became a status symbol on platforms like Twitter, reserved for public figures, celebrities, influencers, and brands. Having the […]
X, formally known as Twitter, has launched a new ‘Basic’ tier to its Verified Organization subscription, offering business subscribers a gold checkmark on their profile, all Premium+ features, access to job posting tools, and priority support for $200/month, compared to […]
X, formally Twitter, has added the option for subscribers of its pay-monthly Blue service to hide their paid-for blue badge, which has become a meaningless symbol used to mock users who pay for Twitter. Before Elon Musk’s turbulent acquisition of […]
Meta, the owner of Facebook and Instagram, is today expanding its paid verification subscription ‘Meta Verified’ to users in the UK, bringing the total number of countries where the service is available in to four. The service, which is slowly […]
Meta appears to be readying a further expansion of its Meta Verified subscription service, with Facebook and Instagram users in the UK seeing a new Meta Verified tab appearing in the two apps, suggesting that an expansion is near imminent. […]
Twitter CEO Elon Musk has revealed that the platform is working on a new, cheaper version of its $1000 Verification for Organizations program, which gives subscribers a gold checkmark and square avatar on their profile to distinguish them as an […]
Twitter has restricted its Verified notifications feed, which showed users likes, mentions, retweets, and more from other users who were either ‘legacy’ verified or subscribed to Twitter Blue, making the notifications tab accessible only for paying Twitter users. The new […]
#BlockTheBlue, a new movement on Twitter is seeing some high-profile users campaign against Elon Musk’s new Twitter Blue subscription, which gives any paying user a blue verification checkmark, with #BlockTheBlue campaigners blocking Twitter Blue subscribers in protest of users paying […]
Days after removing the iconic blue verification badge from ‘legacy’ verified accounts that received the checkmark prior to Musk’s takeover of the platform last year, Twitter has now partially backtracked and reinstated verified blue badges to some high-profile accounts with […]
Twitter’s API has revealed that in the hours after the platform started to remove the iconic blue verification badge from ‘legacy’ verified accounts that received the checkmark prior to Musk’s takeover of the platform last year, only 28 out of […]
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