Celebrities Complain on Closing Day of Free Twitter Blue Checkmarks

Elon Musk and co. are making a significant change to Twitter beginning this month — and it is going have an effect on nearly each verified celeb on the market … a lot of whom aren’t pleased about it.

After all, we’re speaking in regards to the coveted blue checkmarks — which, for years, have served because the official verification system on the hen app … to differentiate distinguished public figures and different folks of be aware from all of the normies. Phrase is, that is all coming to an finish in April.

Going ahead, Elon has stated he will begin charging folks $8/month for Twitter Blue subscriptions — giving ’em the choice to purchase their blue verify. Not simply that, however he is discontinuing legacy verifications … that stripping-down is meant to begin at the moment, April 1st.

In different phrases, all the celebrities which have loved official verification standing are going to be identical to the remainder of us — and an excellent handful are already mourning, Chrissy Teigen included.

She jokingly bid her blue verify standing farewell with a cheeky response … indicating she ain’t ponying up the money to remain verified. Ditto for a ton of different celebs, a few of whom appear genuinely peeved about this. Jason Alexander says he is outta right here if he loses his verify.

William Shatner additionally lately sounded fairly aggravated by the dearth of checks and balances in Twitter’s new house, writing … “Hey @elonmusk what’s this about blue checks going away until we pay Twitter? I’ve been right here for 15 years giving my ⏰ & witty ideas all for bupkis. Now you’re telling me that I’ve to pay for one thing you gave me free of charge? What’s this-the Colombia Information & Tape Membership?” And Dionne Warwick, too, griped about it.

She writes, “I’m not paying for a blue verify. That cash may (and can) be going in direction of my additional scorching lattes.” Ice-T stated one thing comparable this week … vowing to go blue check-less if push involves shove. As we reported … LeBron James promised one thing comparable as effectively.

Loads of stars appear to be keen to lose their verification if it means they gotta pay, however as of now — nearly everybody nonetheless has their checks … so perhaps that is an April’s Fools joke?

Most likely not. Simply a few days in the past, Elon was pointing of us within the route of Twitter’s Verified Organizations system — which appears geared towards ensuring firms, information orgs and different notable entities proceed to remain verified on Twitter … sans impersonation.

Everybody else, although — together with particular person journos, and so forth. — might need to shell out if they need their blue checks. It is positive to be a s***present for a bit … we’ll see the place the chips land.