Twitter Users Have Found a Loophole to Get Blue Ticks Back
A legacy verified Twitter user at Insider tried the workaround, and confirmed that writing "former blue check" on one's bio gives you a blue tick.
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A legacy verified Twitter user at Insider tried the workaround, and confirmed that writing "former blue check" on one's bio gives you a blue tick.
LONDON: Far-right political party Britain First on Monday received a gold tick on Twitter as part of the platform’s shake-up of its verification process. The controversial nationalist party was awarded verified status and an “official organization” label, which means its tweets are more likely to appear in the newsfeeds of users who do not directly follow the account.
After being stripped of the blue checkmarks, over the weekend, some celebrities were upgraded to the Twitter Blue program.
Twitter CEO Elon Musk tweeted that the company’s ‘lords & peasants’ system for blue ticks was ‘bulls**t’ and decided to hand out the badges to all users who are ready to pay for it