New York Times Loses Twitter Verified Badge After It Refuses To Pay Fee For Blue Tick: The NYTimes looses Twitter Verified Badge as it refused to pay Twitter for the blue tick. Earlier they had said that they are not planning to pay the monthly fee to Twitter for blue tick verification. Reacting to a Twitter user’s meme on Times’ statement, Musk wrote, “Oh ok, we’ll take it off then.” He earlier announced that legacy blue ticks on Twitter will be removed starting April 1.
In less than a week after Elon Musk declared on Tweeter’s new scheme for paid-for verification badges, “The New York Times” has lost its verification badge on Twitter on Sunday, 1st April.
Twitter, however, has not revealed how it will deal with the accounts of people who have “notable” mentioned on it
But it will be doing away with the blue ticks for legacy verified accounts starting April 1.
This change by Twitter has been criticised by many of major publication houses, as well as public bodies and celebrities, stating that they would not pay for blue tick services.
The social media platform had introduced this idea of verification back in 2009 to help users identify that referenced accounts (of Business, Brands, Organization or a Celebrity) as genuine and are not impersonated. This time, the company was not charging anything for verification.
Elon Musk launched Twitter Blue with the check-mark badge as one of the premium perks within two weeks of the company’s takeover. And as per his new policies, Twitter will remove the blue check-marks from accounts that do not pay monthly or annual subscription fees.
Readers can refer here for Twitter’s Subscription Fees details.
Despite getting internal warnings from Twitter’s own trust and safety staff, the policy has been practiced actively which has already resulting in impersonations of high-profile accounts including Twitter’s advertisers, The Verge Reported.
According to New York Post, White House Director of Digital Strategy – Rob Flaherty has informed staffs via email “It is our understanding that Twitter Blue does not provide person-level verification as a service. Thus a blue check-mark will now simply serve as a verification that the account is a paid user. Staff may purchase Twitter Blue on their personal social media accounts using personal funds”