In yet another confusion, Twitter recovered the blue seal of some accounts on the social network, a day after taking down the badge of thousands of users and defining that only paying users would be entitled to the feature.
The movement affects users who did not request or pay for the stamp, as well as profiles of dead celebrities such as Paulo Gustavo, MarÃlia Mendonça and Gal Costa. When clicking on the symbol, the platform displays a message stating that the accounts have been verified because they signed up for Twitter Blue and had their phone numbers checked.
questioned by #Hashtag whether they had subscribed to the service, the artists’ teams did not respond by the time of publication. The profiles of Chadwick Boseman, star of the “Black Panther” franchise, and basketball player Kobe Bryant, both deceased in 2022, are among dozens of other examples of distinguished accounts that have had the symbol redeemed.
Some of them do not record recent activity and are still Blue subscribers, according to Twitter, such as the profile of Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chávez (no new tweets since 2013) and murdered Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi (no new publications since 2018). Read more (04/24/2023 – 17:44)
Source: Folha
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