Twitter removes blue ticks from many celebrity accounts

Many famous stars' accounts have gone missing because they refused to pay Twitter fees.

After Elon Musk spent $44 billion to buy Twitter, the social networking platform opened a service to sell blue-tick accounts for a fee of $8/month. Accordingly, users who own blue-tick accounts verify their accounts.

As of April 20, users who do not pay will have their blue checkmarks removed, even if they are celebrities with a large number of followers. This is the final deadline for Twitter accounts to pay to continue to have the blue checkmark to verify their accounts.

Bill Gates' Twitter account has its blue tick removed

Previously, when Elon Musk announced charging for blue tick accounts, many celebrities immediately opposed this idea. Because they believed that celebrities using Twitter helped promote this social networking platform more widely, so there was no reason to charge for using it.

According to many sources, after April 20, a series of celebrity accounts lost their blue ticks, including the account of Twitter founder Jack Dorse or the famous newspaper The New York Times with an account of more than 55 million followers. In fact, the fee of 8 USD/month is not a large amount of money for celebrities, but they do not want to spend money to own a blue tick on Twitter. Many celebrities wrote on their Twitter personal pages that they never paid to own a blue tick account.

Jack's Twitter account has been deleted

The loss of blue ticks on celebrities' accounts can cause many risks of impersonation, fraud, and the creation of celebrity accounts and then spending money to own blue ticks. This can easily affect the reputation of famous people.

Elon Musk makes money from selling Twitter blue check accounts, but this move is causing a lot of controversy from users. Since Elon Musk bought and took control of Twitter, the reputation of this social network has been significantly affected, causing many big brands to decide to stop buying ads on Twitter. This has also seriously affected the revenue of this social networking platform.

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