In recent news, tech tycoon and CEO of Tesla, Elon Musk has set a new deadline of April 20th to remove verified retired checkmarks from all legacy accounts on Twitter. Details earlier emerged that Twitter does not have the backend technology to remove around 4.2 lakh legacy accounts with the blue tick, all at once. Hence, the only way currently to remove these blue checkmarks is by manual approach.
This new deadline arrived after a previous deadline of April 1st was not met due to lack of technical capabilities to remove the checkmarks. In this regard, Elon Musk said in a tweet that “Final date for removing legacy Blue checks is 4/20”.
The blue badge was officially launched by Twitter in 2009 to protect celebrities and public figures from being impersonated. However, now Musk wants everyone to pay $8 a month for this exclusive verified badge with a subscription service. Surprisingly, The White House and The New York Times refused to pay for the verified badge and decided not to take part in this subscription service. Moreover, the world’s 2018 highest paid athlete and NBA star, LeBron James also refused to pay for the blue badge .
Twitter, Inc. is an American online micro-blogging and social networking platform. It enables its users to send and read short messages called tweets. It is one of the most popular social media networks in the world, with over 330 million active users every month. Twitter, Inc. is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Elon Musk, the Billionaire who changed the future of space exploration, transportation and renewable energy, is a South African-born entrepreneur, engineer and philanthropist. He is the founder of SpaceX, Tesla and The Boring Company. Musk was included in Time’s list of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2019. He has also been ranked 21st on the Forbes list of The World’s Most Powerful People. Musk is a strong advocate of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and is certain that the human race will eventually upload consciousness into computers and machines.
