Bill Gates, Hillary Clinton, SRK, Virat Kohli lose Twitter Blue ticks; they must now pay up

Bill Gates, Hillary Clinton, Shah Rukh Khan, Virat Kohli, Priyana Chopra Jonas are a number of the in style names among the many greater than 4 lakh customers who on Friday misplaced their Twitter Blue ticks, at the same time as CEO Elon Musk eliminated all legacy verified accounts.

This comes months after Musk introduced the date to press customers to signal up for Twitter Blue, its paid subscription service.

In India, one has to shell out Rs 900 a month (or Rs 9,400 a yr) to get Blue Verified standing.

Billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates, former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, and billionaire George Soros are some in style names within the US who misplaced the legacy Blue ticks.

Other huge names included the Pope, Beyonce, Kim Kardashian and Oprah Winfrey.

In India, a number of Bollywood celebrities like Alia Bhatt and Amitabh Bhachan; and cricketers Sachin Tendulkar and Rohit Sharma misplaced the blue ticks.

The listing additionally consists of a number of politicians like Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and Congress chief Rahul Gandhi.

Musk has additionally supplied complimentary Twitter Blue subscriptions to some celebrities to retain the blue ticks.

“I’m paying for a couple of personally,” mentioned Musk. “Just William Shatner, LeBron James and Stephen King,” he added.

The blue tick marks have been launched in 2009 to assist customers determine real accounts of celebrities, politicians, corporations, information organisations. Twitter didn’t cost customers for verification.

(With inputs from IANS)