One of the main selling points for Twitter Blue — now "X Blue" — when the service was first launched was that anybody on the platform willing to pay for it can get the once-coveted blue checkmark.

X, formerly known as Twitter, will now make people show their controversial blue checkmark. It comes shortly after the site gave the ticks to accounts with a particularly high number of followers.

X will soon stop allowing users to hide their blue checkmarks, and some users are not happy. Previously, a blue tick on Twitter was a mark of a notable account, providing some assurance to followers ...

X users have found themselves being given blue ticks without asking, in an apparent major change of policy on the site. “Influential” users were given the a Premium subscription to the site – which ...

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When Elon Musk took over Twitter, now known as X, he changed the meaning of the blue verification badge. No longer did one need to meet certain criteria to get a blue tick next to their username, one ...

Free blue checks appear to be back on X just months after billionaire Elon Musk axed them in favor of a paid subscription model, though many users are unhappy to have Twitter’s formerly coveted ...

Subscribers who pay for Twitter Blue—soon to be rebranded as X Blue—now have the option to hide their blue checkmarks, which have been touted as one of the most prominent benefits of the $8-per-month ...