Twitter's removing blue checks, but not from Stephen King, William Shatner and LeBron James
The Twitter splash page is seen on a digital device, on April 25, 2022, in San Diego. After several false starts, Twitter began making good on its promise Thursday, April 20, 2023, to remove the blue checks from accounts that don't pay a monthly fee to keep them. Twitter had about 300,000 verified users under the original blue-check system — many of them journalists, athletes and public figures.
Many of Twitter's high-profile users on Thursday lost the blue checks that helped verify their identity and distinguish them from impostors. Celebrity users, from basketball star LeBron James to author Stephen King and Star Trek's William Shatner, have balked at joining -- although on Thursday, all three had blue checks indicating that the account paid for verification."My Twitter account says I've subscribed to Twitter Blue. I haven't. My Twitter account says I've given a phone number.
While Twitter offers gold checks for "verified organizations" and gray checks for government organizations and their affiliates, it's not clear how the platform doles these out.tweeted on Thursday Fewer than 5% of legacy verified accounts appear to have paid to join Twitter Blue as of Thursday, according to an analysis by Travis Brown, a Berlin-based developer of software for tracking social media.
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