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• @lizziedearden Lizzie Dearden on x

  Twitter has verified the (previously banned) far-right party Britain First as an “official organisation” and is giving blue ticks to anyone “affiliated” with it That will amplify their tweets to non-followers https://twitter.com/...

• @disneyjunioruk @disneyjunioruk on x

  no fucking way.

• @shayan86 Shayan Sardarizadeh on x

  Twitter has suspended a random account with 4,700 followers after the platform handed out its official organisation gold verification to it once the account changed its username and handle to “Disney Junior UK”. https://twitter.com/...

• @ozkaterji Oz Katerji on x

  Twitter have given a $10,000 a year gold organisation verification mark to some random guy because he changed his handle to DisneyJuniorUK. https://twitter.com/...

• @maplecocaine @maplecocaine on x

  Found someone paying $1000/mo. for a gold check so they can get zero likes on their tweets promoting a cat t-shirt company. I wonder if scamming these people is going to be more lucrative for twitter than just getting normal multi million dollar ad buys from companies like Toyota…

• @thatumbrella @thatumbrella on x

  Did New York Times drop $1000 a month on a gold checkmark After saying they wouldn't spend $8 on Twitter Blue?! https://twitter.com/...

• @studentactivism Angus Johnston on x

  CNN doesn't have a blue check because it's got an organizational gold check—again a version of what blue checks used to be. (Confirmation, vetted and vouched by Twitter, that you are who you say you are.)

• @i_ammukhtar Mukhtar on x

  Twitter's new verification is going well. He gave a gold tick to a Disney parody account. https://twitter.com/...

• @barnacules @barnacules on x

  I just got accepted into the Verified Organizations program here on Twitter 👍 They just need a small payment of $1000 a month + $50 for additional affiliate accounts and I'll finally have a gold star next to my name instead of that dumb blue checkmark that only tells people I... …

• @ariehkovler Arieh Kovler on x

  This is what happens when Twitter randomly gives out gold check marks to anyone who sounds like they have an official-sounding name. https://twitter.com/...

• @afraidofwasps @afraidofwasps on x

  Just subscribed to Twitter Gold, it's $16 a month and you get two checkmarks and U can tweet about killing yourself without them sending U an email. And if you call me stupid for buying it well It would be a shame if I did something irreversible

• @studentactivism Angus Johnston on x

  So the pope doesn't have a blue check because he's got a government gray check, which is a version of what blue checks used to be—confirmation, vetted and vouched by Twitter, that you are who you say you are.

• @daveleebbg Dave Lee on x

  Is there anyone @elonmusk won't take money from? https://twitter.com/...

• @markhughesfilms Mark Hughes on x

  This is why blocking blue check accts is a great idea (w/exceptions for certain orgs & folks who need it for work survival at the moment, but very narrow parameters). https://twitter.com/...

• @lorrainemking Lorraine King on x

  Twitter has accredited Britain First with a gold tick. That is all we need to know to understand more about Twitter's hate policy.... https://twitter.com/...

• @stevanzetti @stevanzetti on x

  The Twitter account of a right wing faux-BLM astroturf group in Dallas, @DallasJusticeN1, has rapidly grown to over 40K followers due to an influx of followers that are associated with a botnet of fake accounts. Now they have Twitter Gold, the mark of an “official organization.” …

• @kenroth Kenneth Roth on x

  Twitter belatedly discovers that it makes sense to promote users with large numbers of followers rather than any troll who will pay @ElonMusk $8 a month. But in the meantime, the meaning of the blue check has been degraded by the new pay-to-play approach. https://www.bbc.com/...

• @bbclaurak Laura Kuenssberg on x

  The blue tick is back - (Mine just popped back up, haven't paid!) this is what's going on 👇🏼 https://www.bbc.com/...

• @ianbetteridge@mastodon.me.uk Ian Betteridge on mastodon

  Also, just when you think that Musk can't behave more like a child, he does it.

• @Gartenberg@mastodon.social Michael Gartenberg on mastodon

  The whole point of blue checks was Tommy LaSorta sued Twitter over a fake account and won, so blue checks solved the problem.  Unfortunately it quickly became a status symbol and at one point opened it up to pretty much anyone. …

• @mit @mit on x

  We did not subscribe to Twitter Blue.

• @neilhimself Neil Gaiman on x

  For the curious, I'm not subscribed to Twitter Blue. I haven't given anyone my phone number. What a sad, muddled place this has become. https://twitter.com/...

• @ianmckellen Ian McKellen on x

  Despite the implication when you click the blue badge that has mysteriously re-appeared beside my name, I am not paying for the “honour”.

• @paulkrugman Paul Krugman on x

  So my blue check has reappeared. I had nothing to do with that, and am definitely not paying

• @lilnasx @lilnasx on x

  on my soul i didn't pay for twitter blue, u will feel my wrath tesla man!

• @daveweigel David Weigel on x

  “Let's just reapply blue checks to accounts with >1 million followers, what could go wrong” https://twitter.com/...

• @mehdirhasan Mehdi Hasan on x

  So, how do all the Musk fanboys and MAGA folks on this site feel about the fact that your conquering hero said he'd bring ‘equality’ and ‘people power’ to this site and then charged you all for Twitter Blue while giving it to people like me for free? Do you feel... owned?

• @neiltyson Neil deGrasse Tyson on x

  This past week my Twitter “Blue Check” disappeared for a few days, and then reappeared today. The Universe brims with mysteries. https://twitter.com/...

• @kelseyhightower Kelsey Hightower on x

  Twitter verifying accounts “for free” feels like an attempt to get Twitter Blue endorsements without permission from account holders. I buy clothes without logos for a reason. I don't mind paying for stuff but free advertising is out of the question.

• @karaswisher Kara Swisher on x

  All joking aside, putting a blue check on someone's profile without asking permission and then implying, say, a celebrity, paid for or endorsed a service like Twitter Blue and they did not has thorny legal implications. Other tech startups have gotten into trouble around false ad…

• @perlmutations Ron Perlman on x

  Just for the record, I have not subscribed to Twitter, blue, nor will I ever. Dear Elon: Creepy people do creepy things. Best regards, Ron. https://twitter.com/...

• @lolgop @lolgop on x

  Elon knows better than anyone that the key to running an Apartheid regime is not continually reminding people that the propped up regime only represents a tiny, creepy minority. https://twitter.com/...

• @divineops @divineops on x

  The people with paid blue checks who yelled that celebrities don't like the subscription because it removes elitism Now yelling at the same celebrities to shut up and take the free, now truly elitist, blue check, because they don't get the problem with false advertising 🤦🏻‍♀️

• @brendannyhan Brendan Nyhan on x

  Inducing all of the 1M+ follower accounts to denounce your product is some god-level marketing genius https://twitter.com/...

• @theserfstv @theserfstv on x

  ok that's really fucked up https://twitter.com/...

• @therickwilson Rick Wilson on x

  Please note: I have NOT subscribed to Twitter Blue, though for some mysterious reason, my check mark is showing again

• @chrissyteigen Chrissy Teigen on x

  wait I'm crying they're giving them for punishment now !!?!! https://twitter.com/...

• @nameshiv @nameshiv on x

  just incredible how fast it's turned into a stigma that every famous person on the planet feels the need to apologise for carrying lmao https://twitter.com/...

• @fivepoisonskid Fancy Waddle Dee on x

  “i did not pay for twitter. i did not pay for twitter.” https://twitter.com/...

• @jonfortt Jon Fortt on x

  I see Twitter has brilliantly “democratized” #verification by selling it to the masses willing to pay $8/month, while giving it away for free to popular accounts and celebrities, some of which don't want it. Liberté, égalité, fraternité. #TwitterBlue

• @vermontgmg Garrett M. Graff on x

  Gotta hand it to Elon — he's gotten basically every power user, major celebrity, and company to declare in the last 72 hours that they have no interest in purchasing his product and actively discourage others to avoid it too. What's the complete reverse of viral marketing? https:…

• @mikeisaac @mikeisaac on x

  @goldman @monteiro imagine being the social media account manager at the Auschwitz memorial and being like “oh god, we need to make clear we didn't pay for this shit”

• @jsrailton John Scott-Railton on x

  March Musk: Twitter wasn't transparent. April Musk: I'm not saying whom I ‘gifted’ checks to.

• @trekkiebill @trekkiebill on x

  So many people to block in the replies here. https://twitter.com/...

• @goldman Jason Goldman on x

  The account for Auschwitz clarifies they didn't pay for Blue despite it being represented as such. Paid bluecheck with 100 followers has a top reply snarking at a CONCENTRATION CAMP MEMORIAL FOR NOT SUPPORT “FREE SPEECH” It's just ... you couldn't imagine it in a marketing doc. h…

• @davidoatkins David Atkins on x

  Good pay-for-twitter blocklist in the comments here. https://twitter.com/...

• @jeffjarvis Jeff Jarvis on x

  If I were a celebrity now stuck with the blue checkmark of the #EightBuckSchmuck, I'd sue Elon for defamation. Elon Caves, Gives Blue Checks Back to Twitter's Biggest Celebs https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ... via @thedailybeast

• @larrymadowo Larry Madowo on x

  I woke up to a blue checkmark again. I haven't paid for Twitter Blue. Reports say Elon Musk has given it back to “legacy verified” accounts with over 1 million followers. What's going on? https://twitter.com/...

• @gyaigyimii @gyaigyimii on x

  Ah so if you get 1 million followers or more you get a free blue tick wey I go pay for twitter blue. Elon ankasa ma br3 nu https://twitter.com/...

• @robdenbleyker @robdenbleyker on x

  Twitter Blue increases your engagement by causing the entire website to mock you in your replies

• @imbadatlife Luke Bailey on x

  Elon Musk is now re-verifying a swathe of well-followed people, who did not pay for Blue, while pretending they did. Is this illegal? Possibly! Let's find out!

• @lukeoneil47 Luke on x

  Everyone on the Titanic lining up to kick the captain in the balls one by one instead of getting on a life raft.

• @pixelatedboat @pixelatedboat on x

  They're giving the blue check back to all the 1 million+ follower accounts to try to wash the stink off it but it'll never work. No one is going to believe Beyoncé paid to have the same cursed mark as all of god's least-loved children

• @katewitko Kate on x

  thread of dead celebrities that have been given twitter blue like when mormons posthumously baptize people https://twitter.com/...

• @bestofdyingtwit @bestofdyingtwit on x

  new twitter blue feature: the jokes write themselves https://twitter.com/...

• @carnage4life Dare Obasanjo on x

  We've finally replaced the old corrupt Twitter verification process where random celebrities got blue checks with a new Twitter Blue process where random celebrities get blue checks. Time is a flat circle. https://mashable.com/...

• @levie Aaron Levie on x

  😂 I've got a check again. I didn't even mind eventually paying, but somehow I got bucketed into the paying protestor camp before I could do anything. Twitter, you're wild 😂.

• @katienotopoulos Katie Notopoulos on x

  Elon personally banned @MattBinder over Elon J*t stuff, then shut down all of Spaces just to stop Matt when he was able to still log in, and now forced free Blue on him. Imagine the palatial estate Matt lives in Elon's mind rent free https://twitter.com/...

• @nycsouthpaw @nycsouthpaw on x

  I hope this night of obscene debacles becomes at least like a business school case study in thinking about things before you do them. https://twitter.com/...

• @thedailybeast @thedailybeast on x

  Across Twitter on Saturday, some of the platform's biggest names expressed surprise when their fickle checkmarks suddenly reappeared. https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ...

• @dril Wint on x

  Ah they got me. Im fucked https://twitter.com/...

• @hasanthehun @hasanthehun on x

  i have no clue how this happened, i absolutely did not buy twitter blue https://twitter.com/...

• @nycsouthpaw @nycsouthpaw on x

  I think what's happening is @dril keeps changing his display name, triggering the check mark's automatic removal, but then after a few minutes the CEO's personal revenge team at twitter pops it back on there to spite him. https://twitter.com/...

• @karaswisher Kara Swisher on x

  Good lord, I've been LeBroned, Shatnered, Kinged without my consent. No means no, boys. https://twitter.com/...

• @highyieldharry @highyieldharry on x

  Why is Elon buying Twitter Blue for every passed celebrity? https://twitter.com/...

• @owenjones84 Owen Jones on x

  ffs what is going on here, has Elon Musk bought me a blue tick? because, to be very clear, I am more likely to come out as straight than buy Twitter Blue https://twitter.com/...

• @chrissyteigen Chrissy Teigen on x

  I'm crying I have one too now lmao

• @ddale8 Daniel Dale on x

  Obviously did not do this https://twitter.com/...

• @penamerica @penamerica on x

  Spite checkmarks: Twitter is awarding unwanted blue verification badges to some of the most prominent accounts—including @dril, @mattbinder and @hasanthehun—associated with the campaign to #BlockTheBlueChecks and other Musk critics including @karaswisher. https://mashable.com/...

• @paperghost Chris Boyd on x

  every time someone says “i didn't want this” it goes out to more than a million+ followers by default, and then everyone else outside of that. every time. amazing marketing. funniest the site has ever been imo https://twitter.com/...

• @newsosaur30 @newsosaur30 on x

  So Musk #fanboys have to pay for their blue checks. While his critics get them for free? And this is the genius who's going to take you to Mars? #BlockTheBlue #BlockTheBlueChecks @elon @dril #MuskRuinedTwitter https://mashable.com/...

• @lifebiomedguru James Lyons-Weiler on x

  What is wrong with people wanting free speech on Twitter? Wait til @elonmusk discovers that RANDOM blue check marks arw a vaccine against the “block verified accts” trolling. People, just talk to each other. It is not that difficult. #discourse https://mashable.com/...

• @gilbertjasono Jason O. Gilbert on x

  The actual Twitter Files sucked but I'd love to read a Twitter Files-style thread with internal communications about the efforts to force Dril to be verified

• @jfgariepy @jfgariepy on x

  It's okay @hasanthehun. If it helps, we'll keep acting like you didn't buy it. Welcome to the club man. https://twitter.com/...

• @zachsilberberg Zach Silberberg on x

  so they gave dril the checkmark, but the checkmark goes away if you change your name, so dril just changed his name, but they gave him the checkmark again, so he changed his name again... this is the most looney tunes ass fight ive ever seen between a billionaire and a shitposter

• @owenjones84 Owen Jones on x

  The blue tick is being restored to a whole range of former blue tickers, so I think they realised that virtually nobody was going to pay for a blue tick and they'd succeeded in messing up the platform and nothing else oops! https://twitter.com/...

• @mattbinder Matt Binder on x

  elon clearly wanted to comp the blue check for the two most popular and most handsome leftists on the internet https://twitter.com/...

• @pkafka Peter Kafka on x

  Very smart, very cool. No reason a pro-free-speech, pro-egalitarian town square should exclude ghosts. https://twitter.com/...

• @djstraylight DJ Straylight on x

  I think what they are searching for they aren't sure if they are in the IN group or the OUT group if they have a Blue checkmark. Many organizations are getting the Blue check like NASA, so all astronauts get checks. Going to be awkward for awhile. https://twitter.com/...

• @_megconley Meg Conley on x

  Elon forcing check marks on people who do not want them has real Prince Humperdinck trying to make Buttercup marry him energy. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...

• @mashable @mashable on x

  If you can't beat 'em verify 'em. https://mashable.com/...