Instead their meaning is now different. Check marks of other colors have now joined the line-up, too. You can boil the whole system down as a set of subscriber badges, with distinctions between ...

My faux Blaire took about 15 minutes to set up with a blue check mark — and showed me Twitter “verification” doesn’t verify much of anything at all. A blue check mark no longer means ...

The check marks on Facebook Messenger indicate the status ... Quick tip: If there is a red triangle next to your message, it did not send. A button should appear prompting you to send it again.