Film stars rejoice as Twitter reinstates legacy blue tick

Film personalities, together with Amitabh Bachchan, Priyanka Chopra Jonas and Prakash Raj, on Sunday welcomed Twitter’s transfer of restoring verification badges on high-profile movie star accounts, days after the microblogging platform culled the legacy blue examine marks. Indian celebrities equivalent to Bachchan, Shah Rukh Khan and Salman Khan, Akshay Kumar, Ajay Devgn and Rajinikanth, amongst others misplaced verified blue ticks on their Twitter accounts after Elon Musk’s microblogging website began eradicating examine mark icons from accounts that didn’t pay the month-to-month subscription price. Later, the social media platform reinstated the badges.

Bachchan, an energetic consumer of Twitter, thanked Musk in a reference to the hit ’90s tune “Tu Cheez Badi Hai Mast Mast” from the movie “Mohra”.

“Hey Musk bro! Thank you very, very much for reinstating the blue tick in front of my name. I feel like singing. Will you listen? So, listen. ‘Tu cheez Musk Musk, tu cheez badi hai, Musk,” Bachchan tweeted in Hindi.

Chopra Jonas expressed shock over getting the verification mark being restored.

“Woah! Dunno how but the blue tick is back. I’m Priyanka again!” the actor wrote on the microblogging website.

“Hey #BlueTick welcome back. I missed you ..did u miss me #justasking. Thank you @Twitter,” Raj mentioned in a tweet.

Nayanthara shared an image of hers wearing a conventional Kanjivaram saree and captioned it as: “‘BLUE TICK’ Verified.” “The blue tick is randomly back again? What is happening?” wrote Malavika Mohanan.

The coveted verification made a shock comeback on accounts of those celebrities beginning late Saturday. It was not instantly clear whether or not or not these accounts have paid for the verification.

While there is no such thing as a official phrase from Twitter on the reinstated blue ticks, the corporate is reportedly restoring the verified standing for accounts with excessive follower depend.

Earlier this week, Twitter began eradicating the blue tick that had verified the identification of the consumer behind an account, from the profiles of 1000’s of celebrities, politicians and journalists on Thursday.

The blue tick was thought of one thing of a standing image however beneath Musk, who purchased Twitter for USD 44 billion in October, the social media service is now charging people a month-to-month price of Rs 650 on the net and Rs 900 on cell gadgets to keep up their verification standing.

The microblogging platform additionally provides a reduced annual plan of Rs 6,800 per yr.

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