With social media giant Twitter’s blue tick subscription deadline over, several high-profile persons in the World who had not subscribed to Twitter Blue lost their Blue Verification Ticks on Friday morning.
Apart from people from every walk of life who have lost the Blue Tick, cricketers like Virat Kohli, MS Dhoni, Babar Azam, and Rohit Sharma have also lost their blue tick.
Superstar footballer Cristiano Ronaldo and former Pakistan skipper Prime Minister Imran Khan have also lost their Twitter Blue Tick.
Since Elon Musk has taken over Twitter, several changes have been made to the platform. Musk had earlier announced that the only way to retain the verified Blue Tick Mark on profiles is through a subscription to Twitter Blue.
A few weeks ago, Twitter announced that it would start removing the “Legacy Blue” Checkmarks from the profiles as it wants people to pay for verification ticks that were earlier allotted differently.
The likes of Virat Kohli, MS Dhoni, Babar, Sharma, and several other cricketing greats were still progressing with their respective “Legacy Blue” Checkmarks. Hence, on Friday morning, they all lost the Blue Ticks.
As per the reports by Hindustan Times Cricket, it said, Musk said in November that Twitter will begin charging $8 per month for the badge to launch new revenue streams beyond advertising. The company later offered check-marks in other colors – gold for businesses and gray for government and multilateral organizations and officials.
The Twitter paid model suggests, The costs of keeping the marks range from $8 a month for individual web users to a starting price of $1,000 monthly to verify an organization, plus $50 monthly for each affiliate or employee account. Twitter does not verify the individual accounts, as was the case with the previous blue check doled out during the platform’s pre-Musk administration.
Twitter Blue is a paid service by the Elon Musk-owned company. It doesn’t just offer verified checkmarks on profiles upon subscription but also comes with a few other benefits. Twitter Blue has been made available on both iOS and Android devices those using Twitter’s website can also buy it.
