The recent move to give away Twitter Blue accounts to high profile people, even if they don’t want them, is not all that surprising. “Im serious lol.” At press time, Teigen is still holding strong sans badge, while Favreau’s blue check remains.ĭisturbingly, accounts from people who are dead - including Anthony Bourdain, Chadwick Boseman, and Kobe Bryant - have also received the paid blue checks, obviously without being able to consent. But then don’t talk about it again or you will get another,” Teigen advised him. “Change your name and it triggers a checkmark removal. She shared how to get rid of it with commentator Jon Favreau, who asked, “What the fuck did I do to deserve this” when he saw the blue check on his account. “It’s gone! OK everyone be quiet no one move,” she joked.

Teigen then discovered a way to make it disappear. After she shared that, she too received the now dreaded badge of shame. “Wait I’m crying they’re giving them for punishment now,” Chrissy Teigen tweeted, sharing another account’s exasperation at having regained the badge. Yet, the blue checks reinstated on Saturday misleadingly display that the accounts are verified because they are subscribed to Twitter Blue, the $8 a month premium service, which replaced the free verification once given to prominent accounts to prevent misinformation and impersonation from populating the platform.

And many were unhappy with the change because they do not endorse Twitter Blue. On Saturday, multiple users with reportedly at least a million Twitter followers noticed that their blue checks that had vanished on Friday, April 20 during Elon Musk’s purge (which has predictably not gone well) of the legacy blue check verified accounts, are now reinstated. In fact, some of the account holders are dead. This time it involves paid Twitter Blue badges suddenly proliferating on accounts that reportedly have at least one million followers, except the account holders have not enrolled in the subscription service. It’s another day, and there’s another bizarre glitch in the Twitterverse.

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