"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Accounts verified under Twitter’s previous system had said ... that paid the company $8 or $11 per month would have the badge. The anticipated changes have been widely criticised as they ...

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 ...

In contrast, if the user paid Twitter for their little blue badge, the window would instead read, "This account is verified because it’s subscribed to Twitter Blue." Now after Twitter's recent ...

“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.

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 ...

and that staff who sign up for Twitter Blue will not be reimbursed. The New York Times similarly said it would not pay for its verified badge and would not reimburse journalists who pay for the ...

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 ...