The concept of “verified” is different from the concept of “active subscriber,” so this is confusing. But as Josiah Neely points out, that confusion has existed since at least January 2016, long ...

Twitter will start rolling out its verification application process from Thursday after which approved user accounts can sport the 'blue verified badge'. Twitter had paused its public verification ...

Kobe Bryant, Anthony Bourdain, and Chadwick Boseman were among the celebrities the app says bought a subscription and verified their phone number.

For the brunt of its existence, things change came slowly for social media platform Twitter, whether it be policy changes or the details around the tried and true blue checkmark. Almost too slowly, in ...

X – formerly known as Twitter – has gone through more than a name change since it switched over. One of these has been with the account verification process. You know, that little blue check mark that ...

Days after Elon Musk’s Twitter purged blue check marks from VIP users and prominent organizations, the checks reappeared on the accounts of a number of high-profile figures, many of whom promptly ...

In the six months since Elon Musk completed his acquisition of Twitter, the billionaire has turned the platform on its head by overhauling how it decides which accounts to verify. Once given out to ...

X, formerly Twitter, has launched government ID-based account verification for paid users to prevent impersonation and give them benefits such as “prioritized support.” The social network has ...

If you use X, formerly known as Twitter, you might've seen gray or gold-verified accounts promoting cryptocurrencies. They often pose as actual cryptocurrencies. While you would think these ...

A blue checkmark on Twitter used to be a way for users to verify the authenticity of an account. Recently, CEO Elon Musk said people must pay $8 a month for a Twitter Blue subscription to keep the ...

In what we can only assume was a fit of jealous pique at Mark Zuckerberg stealing away all the negative headlines and eyerolls that are his by divine right, Elon Musk’s Twitter/X-if-we-have-to-call-it ...

Twitter is thinking about an organizational verification plan that doesn’t cost $1,000 a month. Over the weekend, Elon Musk said on Twitter that the company is working on a cheaper plan for small ...