With so many parody accounts buying 'verified' status ... and peasants who paid to not look like peasants but whose shiny blue tick was now worthless. Two years on, things are no less chaotic ...

The tick looks just like the old verification/new Blue tick, a little checkmark inside a scalloped circle, except the verified circle is filled in in blue and the gray one is just an outline.

Twitter recently changed how it describes its blue tick badges, making them appear identical regardless of whether they belong to a verified account or to someone who's paid for Twitter Blue.

Elon Musk had promised to take away all of the blue ticks Twitter had doled out to Hollywood stars, professional athletes, business leaders, authors and journalists unless they start buying a ...

I will not pay for it," Abdullahi tweeted hours after the purge. His counterpart Miguna would write: "Goodbye verified blue tick. I'm not paying one red cent for the blue tick!" Notable ...

Meta has started testing its verification service in India, which means you can now join the waitlist to get a blue tick on Facebook ... the launch of Meta Verified in February to increase ...