One of Elon Musk’s longest-running gripes with Twitter was with verified accounts and the culture surrounding them. He often criticized verification as being a status symbol and vowed to overhaul the ...

Google is going to start displaying a blue checkmark next to select senders’ names on Gmail to verify their identity, the company announced on Wednesday. The new blue checkmarks will automatically ...

After sparking a heated debate for saying he would take legacy blue checkmarks away from verified accounts beginning on April 1 if those users didn’t pay $8 for Twitter Blue, Twitter CEO Elon Musk ...

If you have a verified blue check mark on your Twitter account, you might lose it tomorrow, April 20. According to a post from Twitter Verified, users who have grandfathered their blue check mark in ...

The latest Twitter Blue subscriber numbers show that the removal of legacy verification did not drive paid subscriptions. Credit: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images It's been more than a week since ...

Some artists still have theirs, though. Taylor Swift, for instance, currently has a blue check that indicates her profile is subscribed to Twitter Blue. This wasn’t any sort of surprise. Aside from ...

Now that Elon Musk has turned a nightmare into reality by actually purchasing the social media platform Twitter, he is running it like a Westerosi king in that his narcissism and ignorance are leading ...

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Twitter owner Elon Musk announced that the platform's verification subscription, titled "Blue Verified," will relaunch November 29 after its first release led to a wave of impersonator accounts. Musk ...

Bluesky, the social platform often seen as a less chaotic and open alternative to X, has finally announced plans for an account verification system. The core idea is to put a blue tick as a visual ...

Twitter Blue Verified, the new paid way to get the verification checkmark, is having its relaunch delayed until November 29. The system had arrived on November 7 after employees were told they would ...

Last week, Twitter announced that it would start removing "legacy verified checkmarks" from the profiles of celebrities, journalists, civil servants, and other public figures. Those users will have to ...