Twitter has always been sort of the wild west, but things have been even crazier in the months since Elon Musk took over the social media site. One of the major points of contention has been how Twitter should handle Verified status. Musk had previously announced that those who had been verified prior to his takeover were going to lose that status unless they paid for the Twitter Blue service. Many verified users didn’t love this, including celebrities like William Shatner.
Shatner used Twitter to ask Twitter owner Elon Musk directly what was going on with the verified status issue. He made it clear that he didn’t love the decision to remove the blue check mark from “legacy” verified users on April 1. Shatner didn’t understand why he would be expected to pay for something that had previously been free.
