Legacy verified checkmarks remain on the social media platform despite Elon Musk's threat to remove them on 1 April - but now you cannot tell if someone has paid for their blue tick or not.
So it is now impossible to tell the difference between people who were verified before the legacy verified programme was implemented and those who forked out for a blue checkmark.While many of Twitter's high-profile users brace for the loss of the blue checkmarks that helped verify and distinguish them from imposters on the social media platform - Musk has taken the liberty to remove it from one news organisation in particular.
It comes after the paper claimed in a story on Thursday that it would not pay Twitter for verification of its institutional accounts.The Twitter CEO tweeted early on Sunday that the Times' checkmark would be removed before posting disparaging remarks about the newspaper. "We aren't planning to pay the monthly fee for check mark status for our institutional Twitter accounts," the Times said in a statement on Sunday.Gary Lineker challenges Elon Musk after Twitter user sends abusive message to son over BBC row
Meanwhile, the Associated Press, which has also said it will not pay for the checkmarks, still had them on its accounts at midday on Sunday.Many legacy verified Twitter users have expressed their anger at the idea of being mistaken for a Twitter Blue subscriber.
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