In India, the Twitter users have to shell out Rs 900 a month (or Rs 9,400 a year) to get Blue Verified status. As more than 4 lakh legacy verified users bid goodbye to the Blue check marks, some celebrities were offered a complimentary Twitter Blue subscription "on behalf of Musk". Twitter Blue Tick: Verified Checkmarks Reappear Briefly on Legacy Accounts Due to Bug Caused by Glitch Involving Internal Codes.
An interesting and revealing thing happened on Twitter in recent weeks. The infamous blue check mark, once a status symbol among people in media and others who spend time too much time online, took on a negative connotation.
Under the original blue-check system, Twitter had roughly 400,000 verified users, including actors and athletes as well as journalists, human rights activists and public agencies, reported AP.