{"id":11470,"date":"2023-04-03T09:31:58","date_gmt":"2023-04-03T09:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/03\/twitter-had-a-very-messy-weekend\/"},"modified":"2023-04-03T09:31:58","modified_gmt":"2023-04-03T09:31:58","slug":"twitter-had-a-very-messy-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/03\/twitter-had-a-very-messy-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter had a very messy weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<figure>\n      <figcaption><em>Twitter no longer officially distinguishes between legacy verified accounts and Twitter Blue subscribers.<\/em> | Image: Twitter<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p id=\"0ZtIN8\">April 1st was the day Twitter said it would <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2023\/3\/23\/23654206\/twitter-legacy-blue-verified-checkmarks-april-fools-day\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">begin winding down its legacy verified program<\/a>. But like most things done at the company under Elon Musk\u2019s leadership, the process appeared to be chaotically executed, and subject to the whims of its new CEO. <\/p>\n<p id=\"q2bXBh\">For starters, with the exception of one major corporate account, legacy verified checkmarks don\u2019t appear to have actually started disappearing for any of the accounts we viewed. What <em>has<\/em> changed is that <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2023\/digital\/news\/twitter-updates-verified-user-descriptions-paid-blue-check-1235571165\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter has stopped officially distinguishing<\/a> between legacy verified users and accounts that pay for Twitter Blue. Click on the verified blue badge for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/reckless\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Verge<\/em> Editor-in-chief Nilay Patel<\/a>, for example, and you\u2019ll now see a message that reads \u201cThis account is verified because it\u2019s subscribed&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2023\/4\/3\/23667751\/twitter-legacy-blue-checkmark-wind-down-chaos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Continue reading&hellip;<\/a>\n  <\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2023\/4\/3\/23667751\/twitter-legacy-blue-checkmark-wind-down-chaos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter no longer officially distinguishes between legacy verified accounts and Twitter Blue subscribers. | Image: Twitter April 1st was the day Twitter said it would begin winding down its legacy verified program. But like most things done at the company under Elon Musk\u2019s leadership, the process appeared to be chaotically executed, and subject to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11471,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11470","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tech"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11470\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}