(Currently, the check mark denotes a verified account.) Many users who are verified at present met the development with a laugh. The web comic artist Alex Cohen thinks a rat emoji makes for a fine ...

Kobe Bryant, Anthony Bourdain, Chadwick Boseman, and Michael Jackson each got a posthumous check ... Blue movement Verified Blue badges of their own, he wrote with a laughing emoji: "A troll ...

Many users said Thursday they had lost their verified blue check marks ... tomorrow," “Star Wars” actor Mark Hamill wrote, adding a blue check mark emoji. "Goodbye, blue check.

As Twitter’s legacy blue check mark system finally comes to an end, the social network’s new paid-for verification system ... (aside from the customary poop emoji, of course).

In a tweet responding to reports that he'd given leaders of the anti-Blue movement Verified Blue badges of their own, he wrote with a laughing emoji ... that the blue check states that someone ...