Twitter is obscuring who paid Elon Musk's social media company for a blue check mark, now just noting that the account is "verified." ...

It appears that Elon Musk has finally (mostly) given up on trying to make paid blue checks on X a thing. This week, X users with large followings were surprised to see that their blue checks — which ...

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X gave out thousands of free blue checkmarks to influential users, again, but it's not the status symbol it was two years ago. Reading time 2 minutes Elon Musk reinvented the blue checkmark Wednesday ...

This week, some users on Elon Musk’s X found a surprise waiting for them when they logged in: a blue check mark. “As an influential member of the community on X, we’ve given you a complimentary ...

Starting today, Bluesky is rolling out a new verification system, complete with the familiar blue check marks popularized by Twitter. “It’ll be a rolling process as the feature stabilizes, and then we ...

Bluesky announced on Monday that it is rolling out blue check verification, confirming previous rumors that this feature was on its way to the platform. Like Twitter’s original blue check (RIP), ...

Bluesky may soon get a new blue checkmark verification system, according to changes to the app’s public GitHub repository spotted Friday by reverse engineer alice.mosphere.at. The blue checks may have ...