The social network has begun Free blue badges to reset (“blue tick”) that Check the most influential accountsa feature that has been reserved for paying subscribers since the billionaire Elon Musk He bought the company a year and a half ago.
This is a new twist that Musk announced last week with a release in which he said that the Accounts with more than 2,500 “verified subscriber followers” -a concept that was not clarified and caused confusion, it says in the comments- You would get X’s paid services for free.
Musk bought the company (formerly Twitter) in October 2022 and introduced one of his companies shortly afterwards most controversial changes: Twitter Blue or X Premium, a subscription model that allowed anyone to pay for the blue verification badge, previously associated with reliability and public interest.
This attempt to monetize the social network turned against Musk as many users wearing the badge, including media outlets and celebrities, said they were unwilling to pay and today saw their accounts adorned with the symbol were, they took the opportunity to complain. and joke.
“What is this random blue badge? that I neither demanded nor paid?” wrote the television lawyer Katie Phangto which actor Mark Hamill replied, “Guys: Please don’t judge me by my free blue symbol,” while others saw it as a return to the symbol’s “original” function.
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Musk, who bought the platform with the aim of turning it into a kind of uncensored public forum and declaring himself a defender of free speech, was precisely accused of wanting to censor the CCDH by the judge who dismissed the lawsuit.