Verified Twitter users may soon have to pay $20 a month to retain their blue tick badge. In a characteristic vague tweet, Musk on Sunday said the “whole verification process” was being ...

the New York Times — after making clear they would not pay for Twitter Blue — lost the golden badge usually anointed to “verified” newspapers and magazines. While the New York Times’ sub ...

"Please note that Twitter will do lots of dumb things in ... to Musk's plans to allow users to pay for the existing blue "verified" badge. The company has had a halting rollout of its subscription ...

“Twitter’s current lords & peasants system ... decides who is worthy or important enough to receive a verified badge. The major difference now is that Musk gets to call the shots.

As we enter the third chaotic week since Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter, nothing has become more contentious on the platform than the blue “verified” badge, which Musk had promised would ...

Twitter has started taking away the verified blue badge from accounts that aren't paying for a Twitter Blue subscription. From journalists and businessmen like Bill Gates to global icons such as ...

This image shows the real Elon Musk's verified Twitter account ... The blue verification badge, of course! That's the main draw, even though Twitter isn't doing anything to verify if the person ...

Twitter no longer authenticates the owner of an account receiving a verified badge, allowing impersonator accounts to easily masquerade as the real thing. An account pretending to be NBA superstar ...

Credit: STR/NurPhoto via Getty Images Since Elon Musk rolled out the ability for any Twitter user to pay $8 to receive a verified badge, the blue checkmark that comes with a Twitter Blue ...

Until now, getting verified was a long process that could only be undertaken by individuals Twitter considered to ... Essentially, trolls could buy a badge and alter their account to look like ...

Twitter removed the “verified” badge from the New York Times’ main account on Sunday, a move that billionaire owner Elon Musk pushed for overnight after learning that the news organization ...