As April Fool’s Day came and passed, the blue check marks on Twitter remained for legacy verified accounts and Elon Musk was yet to remove them and make those users pay $8 (Rs 900 a month in India) to remain verified
Almost all legacy Blue check marks were intact on Monday, two days after the Musk deadline
A new verified tagline for legacy Blue users now reads: “This account is verified because it is subscribed to Twitter Blue or is a legacy verified account”
Twitter CEO on Sunday said that verification of accounts will help a lot
“We are adding the date of verification to the profile. Note, only date since paid verification counts, since there was so much corruption in the past with legacy checkmarks,” he tweeted
Musk has removed just one blue badge – that for the account of the New York Times which posted that it will not pay $8 for the verified Blue service with verification
“Oh ok, we’ll take it off then,” the Twitter CEO posted
However, Twitter can still remove legacy Blue check marks (unless it was indeed an April Fool’s Day prank)