USA: From April 1, Twitter has required users to pay $8 (Rs 659 in India) if they want to keep their verification badge (blue tick). Some organizations, which had free verified status on their legacy accounts, objected to the move.

Those who have refused to pay for verification include The New York Times, LeBron James, basketball's all-time great, and actor William Shatner.

Previously, accounts were verified using a variety of criteria. It was claimed that the process was biased and opaque. Users must now subscribe to Twitter Blue under Elon Musk to access the verified badge and other features.

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It appears that those who were verified using the previous method are furious at losing their privileges and want to retaliate on Twitter

Star Trek actor William Shatner has 2.5 million Twitter followers. He said: "You are telling me now that I have to pay for something that you have given me at no cost?

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Columbia Records & Tapes Club - what's that?" James, who has 52 million followers, tweeted, "You guess my blue check mark will be gone soon because if you know me, I don't pay 5 I am," meanwhile.

Global news organizations around the world have also declined to pay for verification, including BuzzFeed, The Washington Post, Politico, Vox and the Los Angeles Times.

However, their verified badges have not been withdrawn so far. The verified badge for The New York Times was removed from his profile because the newspaper refused to comply with the rules. This fight is getting ugly.

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Twitter Blue will also no longer be funded by the US government.
Rob Flaherty, director of digital strategy for the White House, stressed that the service does not offer individual-level verification, saying that "a blue check mark will now only serve as a verification that the account is a paid account." user."

The "The White House" profile currently has a gray badge. Back home in India, Ku, a Twitter competitor, doesn't charge users for verified badges.

Koo CEO Aprameya Radhakrishna had made the decision public in November last year. It remains to be seen whether specific celebrities will make the switch from Twitter to Koo.