The news of removing blue ticks from official accounts of the celebrities was already out. “On April 1st, we will begin winding down our legacy verified programme and removing legacy verified checkmarks,” Twitter said in March Individuals may join up for Twitter Blue to preserve their blue checkmark on Twitter.”
And now finally, Elon Musk’s Microblogging service Twitter removed the classic verified blue ticks from all accounts on Thursday, 20 April 2023.
The decision affected the foreign and Indian celebs such as Beyonce, Cristiano Ronaldo, Shah Rukh Khan, Amitabh Bachchan and Salman Khan and more.
Ajay Devgn, Alia Bhatt, Akshay Kumar, Kajol, Madhuri Dixit, Anushka Sharma and Anil Kapoor were among the other superstars whose blue ticks were removed. Individual Twitter users who have verified blue checkmarks are the only ones who pay for Twitter Blue, which costs USD 8 per month through the web and USD 11 per month via an in-app purchase on iOS and Android.
Besides Bollywood Actors; Cricketer Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma were among those who losttheir blue tick status following Elon Musk’s announcement on Twitter on Thursday.
Kim Kardashian, Justin Bieber, Jon Stewart, Pope Francis and Ben Stiller, basketball star LeBron James and author Stephen King are among the celebs who have lost their blue tick.
How Celebrities Reacted:-
After removal of his blue tick, actor Ben Stiller remarked, ‘No blue tick, still feel like me.’
‘So sad… am I… still me?’ tweeted former Daily Show presenter Jon Stewart.
Surprisingly, American football star LeBron James tweeted in March, “Welp guess my blue tick will be gone soon cause if you know me I ain’t paying the five,” is still verified on Twitter.
B-Town’s Big-B reacted to the recent removal in this funny way:
Here's How Shahid Kapoor reacted:-
According to sources, Twitter will remove the verified check-mark status from accounts that were verified as significant before to Elon Musk’s takeover unless they have subscribed to Twitter Blue or the business focused Twitter Verified Organisations plan.