Finally, they are freed from the shackles of Twitter verification.
took over the company, but today the bird app is very much alive. On April 20, Musk’s new Twitter Blue system officially kicked in, taking the blue check marks that once indicated whether an account truly belonged to the human claiming to own it away from those accounts that aren’t willing to pay $8 a month to keep that verification.
Checkless Twitter has since reached an unprecedented level of chaos, akin to the final chapters ofLong before Musk took the checks away, we as a society decided that keeping a blue check as part of a subscription plan is extremely lame. In a surprising twist, a lot of the rich and famous seem to be on the same page. Though Musk claims to be paying for some people’s blue checks himself,
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