Mumbai: On Thursday, the microblogging platform Twitter modified its blue tick verification policy. Blue ticks were eliminated as a result of the new policy from numerous well-known accounts. A number of B-town celebrities, including Shah Rukh Khan, Amitabh Bachchan, and Alia Bhatt, among others, have lost their verified blue ticks on their Twitter accounts as they failed to pay for the service.
Reacting to losing the blue badge, Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan took to Twitter and shared a post in Hindi, which read: ए twitter भइया ! सुन रहे हैं ? अब तो पैसा भी भर दिये हैं हम ... तो उ जो नील कमल ✔️ होत है ना, हमार नाम के आगे, उ तो वापस लगाय दें भैया , ताकि लोग जान जायें की हम ही हैं - Amitabh Bachchan .. हाथ तो जोड़ लिये रहे हम । अब का, गोड़वा 👣जोड़े पड़ी का ?? (Hey Twitter borther, Are you listening? Now I have paid the money..so that blue tick that is, infornt of my name, restore it again, so that people know that it is me-Amitabh Bachchan, I have already folded my hands, now do I need to touch your feet?)
The tweet went viral on the microblogging site, and users responded with amusing comments. One user wrote, "Blue Tick is the fruit of patience." Another person added, "Wait for 3, 4, days." Elon Musk is a foreigner who never pays attention to anyone, Mr. Bachchan. You'll have to wait a few days, said a third user.
The blue tick was initially used to protect famous people from impersonation and combat false information. In order to make it easier for users to tell which accounts "of public interest" on Twitter are legitimate and which are fake or parody accounts, Twitter first introduced the blue tick mark system in 2009.
Previously, Twitter didn't charge for verification. Within two weeks of the acquisition of the company last year, Musk introduced Twitter Blue, which included the check-mark badge as one of the deluxe benefits.
