Now, accounts with more than 2,500 verified subscriber followers automatically received a blue checkmark for free. Thousands of influential X users were devastated to find out they’d been marked ...

Free blue checks appear to be back on X just months after billionaire Elon Musk axed them in favor of a paid subscription model, though many users are unhappy to have Twitter’s formerly coveted ...

It appears that Elon Musk’s X, formerly known as Twitter, has restored blue check marks to popular users overnight — and some of them are taking to the platform to clarify that they didn’t ...

It appears that Elon Musk’s X, formerly known as Twitter, has restored blue check marks to popular users overnight — and some of them are taking to the platform to clarify that they didn’t ...

Elon Musk’s X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, has begun restoring complimentary blue checks for some of its users, the latest unexpected shift to cause a lot of confusion on the platform.

When Elon Musk brought back the blue check mark to some X accounts for free this week, users balked. The owner of X, formerly Twitter, announced last week that accounts with a certain number of ...

Just as Elon Musk said, X is doling out free Premium and Premium Plus memberships to accounts with a high number of verified followers. Multiple X users on Wednesday reported seeing the familiar ...

It appears that Elon Musk has finally (mostly) given up on trying to make paid blue checks on X a thing. This week, X users with large followings were surprised to see that their blue checks ...

(Matt McClain/The Washington Post) This week, some users on Elon Musk’s X found a surprise waiting for them when they logged in: a blue check mark. “As an influential member of the community ...

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Starting Wednesday, the social network now named X began restoring the blue checks to popular users who aren’t paying for them — and mostly don’t want them.

The move is a major reversal by Musk, who made user payments for the blue checkmark a central tenet of his plan to build a subscription business on X and reduce the platform’s heavy dependency ...