Nearly every Windows user has had a run-in with the infamous “Blue Screen of Death” at some point in their computing life.

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.

Some VIP Twitter users woke up on Saturday expecting to have lost their coveted blue verification check marks in a previously announced purge by Elon Musk. Instead, Twitter appeared to target a ...

Twitter Blue has been available since November at a lower price point and has already been relaunched once. Those who joined for $7.99 will be renewed for an $11-a-month subscription.

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 ...

Twitter on Monday relaunched an option for users who pay for its subscription service to receive a coveted “blue check,” one month after the company was forced to pull the feature amid a wave ...

Officially, from this point on the only people who will have verified accounts and a blue check next to their handles will be those willing to pay $8.00 a month for a subscription to Twitter Blue ...

Bluesky announced on Monday that it is rolling out blue check verification, confirming previous rumors that this feature was on its way to the platform. Like Twitter’s original blue check (RIP ...