Key Points
The billionaire introduced some major changes to the micro-blogging platform, and the latest one is the disappearance of the Blue Tick for thousands of accounts that got verified using the old method..
Before Musks takeover, the Blue Tick was a privilege reserved only for people who could fit in a certain criteria decided by Twitter..
But now, anybody can buy the Blue Tick by paying a monthly fee of $8 and subscribing to Twitter Blue, a subscription-based service that not only gets you the blue check mark, but also helps in boosting your accounts visibility..
In this scenario, Musks decision to return the Blue Tick to celebrities and other accounts with over a million followers might be a way to entice more people to subscribe to Twitter Blue..
Now that accounts with over a million followers have got their Blue Tick back without paying a single penny, it can no longer be concluded that every account that has the tick mark next to it is a Twitter Blue subscriber..
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