In a probable spite move by Elon Musk, the New York Times - after making clear they would not pay for Twitter Blue - lost its golden 'verified' badge
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’ sub-Twitters maintained its gold or blue badge status, the main account was showing up check-less on Sunday morning, hours after the Chief Twit rant-tweeted about the newspaper., @-ing the de-verified account. “Also, their feed is the Twitter equivalent of diarrhea. It’s unreadable. They would have far more real followers if they only posted their top articles. Same applies to all publications.
management informed employees that “we aren’t planning to pay the monthly fee for check mark status for our institutional Twitter accounts. We also will not reimburse reporters forfor personal accounts, except in rare instances where this status would be essential for reporting purposes.” While dozens of publications and celebrities have similarly put their foot down in regards to paying for what they’ve long had for free, Musk turned the widespread defiance toward Twitter Blue into a spite-unverifying specifically aimed at thedeclining to pay the Twitter Verification fee, Musk tweeted, “Oh ok, we’ll take it off then.”
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