2023-04-25 11:32:36
Since’Elon Musk redeemed Twitter at the end of 2022, the controversies are linked. The latest is certification badges for certain accounts. Obtaining the small blue badge now requires subscribe to Twitter Blue and pay $8 a month.
However, some accounts have recently recovered their little blue tick without doing anything. Among them are many personalities deceasedreports Numerama. The writer Terry Pratchett (died in 2015), Senator John McCain (2018), footballer Pelé (2022), basketball player Kobe Bryant (2020) and actor Chadwick Boseman (2020) are particularly concerned.
A “gift” for certain stars?
Living personalities have also found their certification badge without having asked for it, such as rapper Lil Nas X, novelist Stephen King or even astronaut Scott Kelly. It would seem that Twitter Blue was automatically assigned to accounts with a certain number of subscribers (at least one million). Others may have simply been favored by Elon Musk.
Twitter has not commented on the strange return of these blue checkmarks. Critics have been leveled at this approach, with some internet users accusing the social network and Elon Musk for seeking to promote Twitter Bleue on the backs of celebrities without their consent. The American billionaire admitted that he had offered the Twitter Blue subscription to certain personalities, as a gift.
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