What a strange thing the Twitter blue checkmark has evolved into. The too online community has determined it means or should mean more than it ever did as a way to identify an account affiliated to a company, brand, official from the government, celebrity, news outlet, etc. The current Twitter ownership has turned the scenario regarding the verified checkmark some type of awkward too online status symbol that you must pay for because it’s extremely important to the silliest population on the internet.
This is relevant because Twitter has stated that their “legacy” verified program will end on April 1. As a result, accounts’ legacy verified checkmarks will start to be removed. Anyone who has been verified in the past is generally considered to have.
Twitter Blue costs $8 a month if someone wishes to keep a blue checkmark. If a business wants to preserve its checkmark, it can seek to become a verified organization and specify how many accounts can be linked to it that also need to be confirmed. The monthly payment for a verified organization is $1,000 plus $50 for each affiliated account. Lmao. On a larger scale, this implies that almost no accounts that are currently verified will ever receive another verification. That’s alright, I suppose, albeit it might lead to some misunderstanding in the future.
For the majority of us, a verified blue checkmark indicated that we had located the official account for a brand or person or organization. For the weirdos, it obviously meant something else, and that’s too bad because they’ve now ruined a key piece of Twitter that made a whole lot of sense in the past. It now no longer does.
