PM Modi's blue tick on Twitter greyed out: Government Twitter accounts get gray verified tick; Rahul still has a blue tick

Posted on 20th Dec 2022 by rohit kumar

Changes have started appearing on Twitter under the new verification system. Blue ticks have been removed from the accounts of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah. Gray ticks have started appearing on their handles.

 

However, the gray tick rule has not been fully rolled out yet. The blue tick is still visible on the handles of many politicians. A blue tick remains on Rahul Gandhi's account.

 

On December 13, Twitter changed the policy of verification. It is divided into three color categories. Companies will get gold cheques, governments will get gray checks and common citizens will get blue ticks.

 

Biden and Sunak's verification tick changed

Gray ticks have started appearing on the Twitter handles of PM Modi as well as government institutions like the Prime Minister's Office (PMO). Gray ticks are visible on the Twitter profiles of many politicians including US President Joe Biden, and UK PM Rishi Sunak.

 

Twitter made several changes to the Blue Tick service

Twitter launched Twitter Blue with a check-mark badge on November 9 but put the service on hold two days later due to the growing number of fake accounts. New Blue Signs Ups were discontinued. Right now this service has been relaunched in some countries including America. For this, 8 dollars will have to be paid every month.

 

If you buy it from Apple's App Store, it will be available for $11 per month. The reason for it being expensive at the Apple Store is the 30% tax charged by Apple. In the past, Elon Musk had told about this tax of Apple. When this service will be launched in India, then 700 rupees per month may have to be paid for it.

 

Twitter suspended the account of 'Koo'

Twitter has suspended an account of the Indian microblogging platform Koo. The Twitter handles @kooeminence, which was set up to field user queries, was suspended on 16 December.

 

Koo co-founder and chief executive Aprameya Radhakrishna said, “We don't know why the handle has been suspended. No explanation has been given. He also made a tweet 'A handle of Ku has been banned on Twitter. Why?! Because we compete with Twitter? So? Mastodon was also blocked today. What kind of free speech is this and what world are we living in? What is happening here @elonmusk?

 

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Twitter has 220 million active users in the world. It has 76 million users in America and 23 million users in India. Around 500 million tweets are done every day around the world. Twitter was launched in July 2006. It was founded by Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Evan Williams, and Biz Stone.

 

Twitter restores suspended accounts of journalists

Twitter suspended the accounts of many journalists. These included journalists from the New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, and Voice of America. Not only this, but the Twitter profiles and old tweets of these journalists had also disappeared. The journalists' accounts were suspended by Musk alleging that they were putting his family in danger. However, after criticism, the company re-stored the suspended accounts of the journalists.

 

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