(Currently, the check mark denotes a verified account ... Mr. Cohen wrote on Tuesday. He added a rat emoji to his display name on Twitter and encouraged other users to do the same.

adding a blue check mark emoji. "Goodbye, blue check. I will pathetically seek validation from mere friends and loved ones," wrote another Twitter user.

And on November 5, Twitter, fresh under Musk, changed its blue check mark policy via a subscription ... "I miss killing Iraqis" along with a sad-face emoji. Then there was O.J., or rather a ...

Clicking on the check mark itself from a profile page apparently displays different copy too, but like everything on Twitter right now, that is subject to change. So far this has resulted in some ...

On Feb. 26, 2023, a viral tweet claimed Twitter was banning users from using the Ukrainian flag emoji unless they paid for a "Twitter Blue" checkmark. The tweet was authored by @walter_report and ...

The hope was that taking away the “free” Twitter blue check-mark would boost revenue from subscriptions to Twitter Blue, while Musk has also framed it as democratizing the user-verification ...

And in a move likely to draw even more ire, Twitter users can now see who has paid for their blue badge and who hasn’t. Historically, the blue badge (aka the blue check mark) served an important ...

“We did not subscribe to Twitter Blue.” Popular user Dril—who is famous for posting absurdist jokes but has never revealed their identity—posted that they received a blue check mark after ...