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General News of Sunday, 23 April 2023

Source: www.mynigeria.com

Twitter restores blue ticks for some media, celebrities

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Twitter has reinstated the verification badges for some media organisations and celebrities across the world.

Recall that on Friday, April 21, the micro blogging platform removed all blue checkmarks for all Twitter accounts with the exception of a few notable personalities.

Following the backlash and several appeals to Twitter on the reason that the blue ticks helps in authenticating real information from fake news, the platform has restored some accounts with the verification badges.

A search by MyNigeria.com shows that Peter Obi, President-elect Bola Tinubu, Atiku Abubakar among other politicians who had their verification badges removed, now has their account badges restored.

Also celebrities such as Tacha after her cry and appeal to the Chief Executive Office, Elon Musk, has gotten her blue checkmark back.

Singers such as Davido, Burna Boy, Wizkid among others have also received their verification badges.

Activist, Aisha Yesufu took to social media to clarify that she did not pay for her verification badge as it was restored by Twitter.

She wrote; "This is not acceptable. I did not subscribe to Twitter blue and find this extremely deceptive.

It better not be that someone can pay on my behalf. That will be a breach of my privacy."

CNN journalist, Larry Madowo, also shared a post on Twitter saying that his blue checkmark was also restored.

"I woke up to a blue checkmark again. I haven’t paid for Twitter Blue.

Reports say Elon Musk has given it back to “legacy verified” accounts with over 1 million followers. What’s going on?"

According to Twitter, the move to remove all the verification badges was to ensure accounts who are in the need will have to pay $8 monthly.

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