Celebrities complain about new Twitter policy and refuse to pay for verification

After Elon Musk announced the payment requirement for Twitter accounts to obtain the verification seal, celebrities and celebrities say they will not pay for the service. The measure came into effect from the beginning of April.

Users who want to have their profile verified must obtain, through a monthly payment, Twitter Blue, a subscription service offered by the platform. The seal aims to authenticate profiles of companies and individuals. The American rapper Doja Cat is one of the people who is already without the check on the social network.

“Having a blue tick now means there’s a greater chance you’re a complete loser and desperate to be validated by famous people,” she wrote on the platform.

Other celebrities and celebrities also refuse to adhere to the company’s new policies. A day before the measure was implemented, basketball player LeBron James said his seal will end as he would not adhere to the new rules. “Well, I think my blue will run out soon because if you know me, I won’t pay [por isso]”.

In Brazil, the Pernambuco singer Otto Ferreira went further and announced his departure from the social network for disagreeing with the rules. “I was thinking for a while about whether I was here on Twitter or not, sometimes I felt too scared to leave, but now looking at it more coherently and more clearly and being honest with myself, this is my last post, I don’t agree with your guidelines, bye bye,” he wrote.

Biologist Atila Iamarino criticized the new management and said that paying for the verification “is to give credibility to the extreme profiles that they restored, which reverses the whole purpose of the verification. I will not pay for the verification.”