Twitter blue tick eradication begins slowly as New York Times loses tick

Elon Musk’s Twitter promised to remove the blue checkmarks from all legacy accounts by April 1, but few seem to have met that fate.

As of this morning, few official or legacy accounts have lost ticks, despite Musk’s removal The New York Times’ notes to a user that the newspaper said it would not pay for it.

Adding to the confusion this morning, older accounts became indistinguishable from new, paid Blue Tick accounts.

Musk warned that those with old blue ticks — who were eligible for celebrities and opinion leaders under the previous regime — would lose their status unless they started paying $8 a month.

The trial is likely to continue in the coming weeks, as it represents a mammoth task for Twitter’s staff Washington Post recently reported. Removing blue ticks is a time-consuming, manual process.

Since the beginning of the paid system, many accounts with few followers have raised their voices, while the response of many individuals and businesses with old faucets has been less responsive.

Today, when you click on an account’s blue checkmark, you’ll see a message that says, “This account has been verified because it’s subscribed to Twitter Blue or is an outdated verified account.”

So far in this post a distinction has been made between legacy accounts and paid accounts.