The Morning After: Twitter retains legacy verified blue ticks round, for now

Final week, Twitter stated it could begin winding down the legacy verified program on April 1st, however over the weekend, that didn’t happen, as a result of (in keeping with The Washington Submit) unverifying customers is a painstaking handbook course of. In the meantime, one other report indicated round 10,000 of the top-followed websites would retain their legacy checkmarks, even when they did not subscribe to Twitter Blue. And now, Twitter is displaying the identical standing for each legacy verified and Twitter Blue subscribers, making it troublesome to inform them aside. Twitter stated Twitter Blue would value $1,000 per 30 days for organizations, plus an extra $50 per 30 days for particular person associates within the US.

In the intervening time, I nonetheless have my blue tick, however I’m very able to bid it farewell.

– Mat Smith

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