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Twitter has restored blue ticks for several accounts, just days after removing them for users who didn't pay to keep their "verified" status despite a "deadline" given by owner Elon Musk to sign up for Twitter Blue, the $8 a year microblogging platform. . paid monthly subscription service, which adds blue checkmarks to accounts. For example, on Sunday, the former Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, Omar Abdullah, tweeted to say that the blue tick had been reinstated in his username, despite not having paid for Twitter Blue. Reporter Rana Ayyub also said that her verified status is back and she is not following Twitter Blue.
American authors Kara Swisher and Stephen King were among those who got their blue marks back, without paying.
It should be noted, however, that Abdullah (3.2 million followers), Ayyub (1.5 million), Swisher (1.4 million) and King (7.1 million) are each followed by at least 1 million. of people on the site, an indication that among users who were not Twitter Blue subscribers, the blue checkmark was only reset for those with at least 1 million followers.
Meanwhile, there was no word from Musk or Twitter about reinstating blue checkmarks for non-followers.
Tesla CEO Musk, the world's second-richest person who bought Twitter in October last year when he was the world's richest, announced on April 12 that on April 20, the social network will remove verification badges from non-subscribers. to Twitter Blue. As warned, the badges were removed at the end of the "deadline".
Before the multi-billion dollar acquisition, verification on Twitter was free.
