Twitter Verified Unfollows All Accounts As Confusion Continues Over Blue Check
'Twitter Verified' has mass unfollowed legacy all verified accounts within a few hours.
'Twitter Verified' has mass unfollowed legacy all verified accounts within a few hours. The account has unfollowed nearly 225,000 accounts since yesterday.
'Twitter Verified' has mass unfollowed legacy all verified accounts within a few hours.
— ANI (@ANI) April 7, 2023
The account has unfollowed nearly 225,000 accounts since yesterday pic.twitter.com/tOTQp2wJV3
After taking over the microblogging site, Musk announced the ability for users to purchase a blue tick verified through Twitter Blue. Despite getting internal warnings from Twitter's own trust and safety staff, Musk's plan resulted in the impersonation of high-profile accounts, including Twitter's advertisers, The Verge reported. After Musk took over Twitter, the microblogging site has been adding and removing separate, grey checkmarks on high-profile accounts without explaining the reason.
Also, prior to the launch of Twitter Blue, the blue tick was assigned to authentic accounts of celebrities, politicians, and public figures. However, now anyone who pays the subscription cost can now purchase the checkmark via Twitter Blue.
Twitter had earlier warned of winding down all the legacy verified accounts from April 1 and even removing the checkmarks for those who still had them but were not paying for a Twitter Blue subscription. But now that Twitter has unfollowed everyone, it is not clear whether Twitter Verified is following them or not.
Earlier, Variety reported that the microblogging site will remove the verified check-mark status of accounts that Twitter had verified as notable before Elon Musk's takeover unless they have subscribed to Twitter Blue or the business-focused Twitter Verified Organizations plan.
Elon Musk changed the blue bird logo, the home button on the web version, with the "doge" meme of the Dogecoin cryptocurrency. The users noticed that the blue bird logo on Twitter’s homepage had been replaced by the image of shiba inu image associated with the Dogecoin meme coin cryptocurrency. Notably, there was no change seen on Twitter’s mobile app.
Following the change in Twitter’s logo, Dogecoin’s value jumped from US$0.079 to US$0.094, the highest value the currency has been since November last year, as reported by The Guardian.
Top Headlines
