Twitter added verified checks to accounts of dead celebrities to promote Twitter Blue subscriptions. Kobe Bryant, Anthony Bourdain, Chadwick Boseman, and Michael Jackson each got a posthumous check.

The company is rolling out Official Stories, a designation similar to the blue checkmark used by Twitter and Facebook to highlight verified accounts. On Snapchat, though, the accounts that belong to ...

Elon Musk wants Twitter users to pay to be verified. An artist offers a wry alternative. By Madison Malone Kircher Elon Musk, the richest man in the world, wants $8. After buying Twitter in a $44 ...

Twitter on Sunday updated its description label for verified accounts to make it indistinguishable whether a user with a blue checkmark paid for the platform's subscription service or was already ...

Twitter’s blue check marks have long been a status symbol of sorts: They’ve adorned the accounts of those who are famous or infamous, politician or influencer. Most important, they verified that the ...

A day after Twitter was supposed to begin removing verified check marks from accounts that wouldn't pay for the platform’s new subscription service, many verified accounts appear to have kept their ...

Beginning April 1, Twitter will start removing “legacy verified checkmarks” from the profiles of celebrities, journalists, civil servants and other public figures. Twitter is making the move in an ...

Twitter, the Elon Musk-owned social media giant, removed the verification check mark of the New York Times official account. It comes after the billionaire entrepreneur, Musk, gave verified Twitter ...