Twitter will now give a blue check mark to any account for $8, including our imposter Blaire Erskine and Sen. Ed Markey. That makes it mostly worthless.

The blue check mark on my fake U.S. senator suggests he still has a long way to go. ... To test it, I needed a Twitter account that was at least 90 days old — new accounts are not eligible.

Twitter’s blue check mark was once a coveted status symbol. Now, some users are calling it “the dreaded mark” or that “stinking badge.” Last week, Twitter began stripping the ...

The Margin Twitter’s blue-check-mark drama gets stupider over the weekend Many popular but unpaid accounts have their check marks restored against their will — or even despite their deaths ...

To input a check mark, you insert the check mark image from Windows Character Map into your Facebook status. Chron Logo Hearst Newspapers Logo. Skip to main content. Newsletters. About Us.

But to other users, the check mark has become a status symbol, unfairly reserved for a select group. It’s a sentiment Mr. Musk, with his feudalist metaphor, appears to share.

The check marks started rolling out on Wednesday and will be visible in personal and work Gmail accounts, Google said in a blog post. Gmail is far from the only place you'll spot a blue check mark ...

The Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research (IISERs) have announced the results of the IISER Aptitude Test (IAT) ...

Musk took to Twitter on April 11 — days after the legacy check marks should have disappeared — to shift the end date to April 20 or 4/20. Yes, that’s the day when folks honor weed because ...

What We Don’t Know . How many followers an account needs to be re-verified. Some have speculated that Twitter restored blue check marks to accounts with over 1 million followers—though some ...

More to the point, to make the blue check mark a pay-to-play feature literally strips it of its current meaning. We can expect a bunch of scam artists and MAGA-hat nobodies to pony up eagterly.

The new badge, which consisted of a gray check mark and the word “Official” placed underneath account handles belonging to Twitter, the United Nations and media outlets including CNN, was ...