April 1st was the working day Twitter said it would start out winding down its legacy verified system. But like most items completed at the firm beneath Elon Musk’s management, the process appeared to be chaotically executed, and matter to the whims of its new CEO.
For starters, with the exception of a single significant company account, legacy confirmed checkmarks never seem to have actually started disappearing for any of the accounts we seen. What has transformed is that Twitter has stopped officially distinguishing between legacy confirmed users and accounts that pay back for Twitter Blue. Click on the confirmed blue badge for Verge Editor-in-main Nilay Patel, for case in point, and you are going to now see a information that reads “This account is confirmed mainly because it’s subscribed…
Continue on reading…