Twitter's verified badge is back for celebrities and media accounts with over 1 million followers



Twitter decided to target the 'authenticated badge' display to users of the paid service Twitter Blue, and deleted the badges of users who did not participate in Twitter Blue.

Elon Musk, CEO of some celebrities, mentioned that he was paying for the badge with his own money , but newly authenticated badges have been revived in celebrities and media accounts with more than 1 million followers. It is clear that it has been achieved.

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The 'verified badge' is a check mark that appears to the right of the Twitter account name. The function has been changed to be available only to users.

Twitter Blue will be available worldwide and from April 1, the blue check mark will be removed from authenticated accounts that have not joined Twitter Blue - GIGAZINE



For this reason, even celebrities who did not use Twitter Blue had their badges removed. On the other hand, NBA players such as LeBron James and author Stephen King are keeping their badges displayed despite not using Twitter Blue, and CEO Elon Musk has personally subscribed. had made it clear.

While Twitter's traditional blue authenticated badge is deleted, it is discovered that Elon Mask is paying for some celebrities' authenticated badges on his own - GIGAZINE



After that, there seems to have been a major change in policy within Twitter, and from April 21 (Friday) to 22 (Saturday) local time, badges were restored to media and celebrities accounts that had previously lost their verified badges. .

Some of the accounts whose badges have been revived state that 'the badges have not been revived because they subscribed to Twitter Blue.' One example is the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.



So does rapper Lil Nas X.



In addition, badges have been reinstated on the accounts of actor Chadwick Boseman , who died of colon cancer in August 2020, and former NBA player Kobe Bryant , who died in a helicopter accident in January 2020 .

Chadwick Boseman (@chadwickboseman) / Twitter
https://twitter.com/chadwickboseman



Kobe Bryant (@kobebryant) / Twitter

https://twitter.com/kobebryant



Clicking on the verified badge displayed on these accounts will display the message 'This account is verified, subscribed to Twitter Blue and has passed phone number verification'.



Mr. Boseman's account seems to have been managed by the staff even after Mr. Boseman's death, so it is possible that the staff did the procedure, but Mr. Bryant's account did not move at all after the accident, and he went out of his way to authenticate. I think the chances of that happening are pretty low.

This time, most of the accounts with revived badges have more than 1 million followers. He announced

that he would not subscribe to Twitter Blue to maintain the badge , and Mr. Mask immediately responded, ``Let's remove the authenticated badge,'' The New York Times' golden corporate authentication badge has also been revived. .

The New York Times (@nytimes) / Twitter
https://twitter.com/nytimes



In addition, it is said that there are cases where it has been revived even if it has less than 1 million followers, but there are accounts without badges, such as actor Ryan Reynolds with 20 million followers, and the criteria are unclear.

Ryan Reynolds (@VancityReynolds) / Twitter

https://twitter.com/vancityreynolds



Regarding this badge, author Stephen King said, ``I think Mr. Mask should donate my authenticated badge to charity.I recommend the Prytula Foundation , which provides lifesaving services in Ukraine.Only $ 8. (About 1080 yen), so Mr. Mask may want to raise the price a little more, ”he tweeted.



Mr. Mask replied to Mr. King's tweet, 'I donated $ 100 million (about 13.4 billion yen) to Ukraine, but how much did you donate?'



Mr. King did not respond to this tweet and said in another tweet, 'Mr. Musk donated $100 million to Ukraine. Great. Glory to Ukraine!'



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