Twitter begins removing blue checks from users who don’t pay

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The costs of keeping the blue checks marks range from $8 a month for individual web users to a starting price of $1,000 monthly to verify an organization

Many of Twitter’s high-profile users are losing the blue check marks that helped verify their identity and distinguish them from imposters on the Elon Musk-owned social media platform.

The costs of keeping the marks range from $8 a month for individual web users to a starting price of $1,000 monthly to verify an organization, plus $50 monthly for each affiliate or employee account. Twitter does not verify the individual accounts to ensure they are who they say they are, as was the case with the previous blue check doled out during the platform’s pre-Musk administration.

After buying Twitter for $44 billion in October, Musk has been trying to boost the struggling platform’s revenue by pushing more people to pay for a premium subscription. But his move also reflects his assertion that the blue verification marks have become an undeserved or “corrupt” status symbol for elite personalities, news reporters and others granted verification for free by Twitter’s previous leadership.

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