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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
National
Kieran Isgin

Legacy Twitter blue ticks stay in place with users confused over verifications

Twitter's legacy blue checkmarks remain in place, despite the platform committing to remove them on April 1.

Users of the social media site, led by billionaire Elon Musk, have been left confused as older verified users are indistinguishable from those who paid for the checkmark. Last month, Mr Musk said that legacy verified Twitter users would see their blue ticks removed unless they paid a monthly fee of $8 (£6.40).

Meanwhile, organisations would have to fork out $1,000 (£810) a month to receive a gold verification tick. Because of this, thousands of the platform's high-profile users were prepared to lose the ticks which helped to verify the authenticity of their online identity.

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