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Twitter announced that it will soon implement changes "to reduce spam in Direct Messages" as part of their ongoing efforts.

Twitter CEO Elon Musk wrote on the micro-blogging platform "Twitter Blue Verified subscribers can now upload 2 hour videos (8GB)!,”

The verification badges that were obtained by people under the old system -from the handles of those who have not subscribed to Blue subscription.

Several celebrities including Bachchan, Sachin Tendulkar, Virat Kohli and others had lost their blue ticks.

Twitter earlier placed the 'publicly-funded' label to the BBC account and applied the 'government-funded' label to US-based NPR.

The only individual Twitter users who have verified blue checkmarks are those paying for Twitter Blue, which costs USD 8/month via the web and USD 11/month through in-app payment on iOS and Android.

The checks — which used to mean the account was verified by Twitter to be who it says it is — began disappearing from these users' profiles late morning Pacific Time.

Twitter has unfollowed everyone, it is not clear whether Twitter Verified is following them or not.

Almost all legacy Blue check marks were intact on Monday, two days after the Musk deadline.

Some White House officials, like the President and Vice President, will likely continue to be verified with a grey checkmark.

Twitter Blue is now available globally and the users can get Blue Verified for $7 a month if they sign up via web browser, Musk announced.

Elon Musk on Sunday confirmed that the new Twitter Blue subscription service with verification for $8 will be available in India in less than a month.