‘X’ Restores Free Blue Checks For Those With Large Followings
It has been said that one should never look a gift horse in the mouth. Evidently, many X followers don’t support that axiom, as they are up in arms about receiving a free blue checkmark from the service.
X is doling out free Premium and Premium memberships to accounts with a high number of verified followers. Elon Musk announced the program on March 27, but it’s just now being implemented.
Premium or Premium Plus (normally $8 or $16 per month) is being given away to accounts with at least 2,500 “Verified subscriber” followers (5,000 for Plus) that presumably also pay for access.
Multiple X users on Wednesday reported seeing the blue “Verified” checkmark next to their handles, despite not paying for either paid X subscription tier.
Once given to celebrities and others in the public eye, the checkmarks went away for some after paid verification was rolled out.
Now, it appears that many influential X accounts are once again check-marked, or will be, whether they like it or not.
https://deadline.com/2024/04/twitter-restores-free-blue-checks-for-large-followings-1235875664/
He is so desperate. It's both hilarious and said.
Nobody want's your stupid blue checks, Elon. You destroyed it. They used to mean that person who got them is verified user, with passport and is real and has weight like celebrity, journalists, sports person, politic etc. People knew that it was not bot or troll who writes posts. They are real serious people.
Now when every troll can anonymously buy that blue check and write lies and nonsense - it's lost all meaning. Now people see Blue check and they know that it's either die hard Musk fanatic and pro-trump troll. Or someone who likes to write long posts and needs that check who allows it.
No one pays attention to those blue checks anymore when they read twits. Why Musk keeps trying to save what is dead - no one understand. Just leave it. Have your 8 dollars from trumpists and be happy. share