UPDATED. Pope Francis, who lost the blue tick earlier, was later given the gray verification checkmark by Twitter.
Twitter on Thursday, April 20, began removing legacy blue checkmarks from user profiles, with famous people including pop icon Beyonce, Microsoft Corp MSFT.O co-founder Bill Gates and Portuguese soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo losing their verified statuses.
“The Shining” author King, who has previously called owner Elon Musk a terrible fit for Twitter, tweeted: “My Twitter account says I’ve subscribed to Twitter Blue. I haven’t. My Twitter account says I’ve given a phone number. I haven’t.”reported that James, who has previously said he would not pay for verification, had not paid to keep the checkmark.
Under Musk’s ownership, Twitter has changed how it hands out the coveted blue checkmarks that were earlier given to noted individuals, journalists, executives, politicians and establishments after verifying their identities. They served as a mark of authenticity. Twitter on Friday, April 21, also dropped the “government-funded” label from the accounts of US-based National Public Radio , British Broadcasting Corp and public broadcaster Canadian Broadcasting Corporation .
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