Twitter Restores Blue Tick For Several Personalities

Several prominent personalities on Twitter woke up on Sunday with their 'Blue Ticks' restored, which were removed last Thursday from several celebrities, business leaders, and politicians' accounts.

The social networking platform decided to restore the 'Blue Tick' for many personalities for free if they had a follower count of one million or more.

Indian personalities who got their 'Blue Tick' marks back included Shah Rukh Khan, Sachin Tendulkar, and Arvind Kejriwal, among others.

A few global personalities, such as Stephen King and LeBron James, had declined to pay for the blue ticks but saw their checkmark retained. Elon Musk admitted that he would personally pay for their subscription bills.

The Twitter subscription service in India is priced at a monthly fee of Rs 650 on the web and Rs 900 on mobiles for individual user accounts.

Other brands and organisations had to sign up for a costlier 'Verified for Organisations' service, whose monthly subscription began at Rs 82,300. These accounts would be given a gold checkmark and a square avatar.

Since he acquired Twitter back in October 2022 for USD 44 billion, Musk has been vocal about how the 'Blue Ticks' were given out and termed the legacy verification system as a "lords and peasants system."