After Elon Musk took over Twitter last year, the social media platform introduced new profile labels for different accounts that display different checkmarks. These checkmarks are categorized on the basis of colours: blue, golden and grey. Here’s what these blue checkmarks mean and how you can get them.
Twitter CEO Elon Musk tweeted that the company’s ‘lords & peasants’ system for blue ticks was ‘bulls t’ and decided to hand out the badges to all users who are ready to pay for it
The blue tick was to social media what the red beacon car used to mean to politicians and bureaucrats. It was always about status, and being close to power