{"id":9527,"date":"2023-04-04T11:37:30","date_gmt":"2023-04-04T09:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/04\/techscape-elon-musk-promised-to-take-away-the-blue-ticks-so-why-hasnt-he\/"},"modified":"2023-04-04T11:37:30","modified_gmt":"2023-04-04T09:37:30","slug":"techscape-elon-musk-promised-to-take-away-the-blue-ticks-so-why-hasnt-he","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/04\/techscape-elon-musk-promised-to-take-away-the-blue-ticks-so-why-hasnt-he\/","title":{"rendered":"TechScape: Elon Musk promised to take away the blue ticks \u2013 so why hasn\u2019t he?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this week\u2019s newsletter: After weeks of warnings, Twitter appears to have backed down on plans to do away with one of Musk\u2019s original obsessions.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ablink.editorial.theguardian.com\/ss\/c\/TBl-lE0k4WbTlFRn6v-lQXxTpTslqnvUsR2ofAkC00vqkHXqakTSxrykj9mrdACFo11SPMvm9ONAti2JcHBqUgcduObToxycReEYHcTAh6nov_u_7l464yKkl5CZpPeg-CqG3ueb-8UiDZ4dOkhK_xu6BZysaGtGOA-w2_0KTqLsMBLqZrcGelEg-7T5C6DRfMSsX1Wcyrv2RlHjbzIGx0ePxMD7meIXmznkqCFxtrflV_YvxDV9cqXgzdq7c2-9qYTW0MyIMCG7p9sc7wIKCg\/3ha\/N7031ZxvS8Cv2AmB8PHP-g\/h27\/towm4HqYM1UtQe3kzAkaoAWT_zh9HyZuTvPyJCk6JeE\">Don\u2019t get TechScape delivered to your inbox? Sign up here<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For weeks, Twitter has been promising that it would be ending its \u201clegacy\u201d verification programme \u2013 the one that actually verifies users \u2013 and stripping the status from any user who didn\u2019t pay.<\/p>\n<p>Although the cut-off for the switchover was 1 April, the company <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/verified\/status\/1639029459557679104\">didn\u2019t seem to be joking<\/a>. \u201cWe will begin winding down our legacy verified program and removing legacy verified checkmarks,\u201d it posted on its official channels. \u201cTo keep your blue checkmark on Twitter, individuals can sign up for Twitter Blue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2023\/apr\/04\/techscape-twitter-blue-ticks-elon-musk\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/ae947ed0a370c8f70bf881f5fd0ad704b48361f3\/0_0_3000_1801\/master\/3000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=0cdcd3d03e35a137dcb7f180dee161da\" title=\"TechScape: Elon Musk promised to take away the blue ticks \u2013 so why hasn\u2019t he?\" \/>In this week\u2019s newsletter: After weeks of warnings, Twitter appears to have backed down on plans to do away with one of Musk\u2019s original obsessions.<br \/>\nDon\u2019t get TechScape delivered to your inbox? Sign up here<br \/>\nFor weeks, Twitter has been promising that it would be ending its \u201clegacy\u201d verification programme \u2013 the one that actually verifies users \u2013 and stripping the status from any user who didn\u2019t pay.<br \/>\nAlthough the cut-off for the switchover was 1 April, the company didn\u2019t seem to be joking. \u201cWe will begin winding down our legacy verified program and removing legacy verified checkmarks,\u201d it posted on its official channels. \u201cTo keep your blue checkmark on Twitter, individuals can sign up for Twitter Blue.\u201d Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this week\u2019s newsletter: After weeks of warnings, Twitter appears to have backed down on plans to do away with one of Musk\u2019s original obsessions. Don\u2019t get TechScape delivered to your inbox? Sign up here For weeks, Twitter has been promising that it would be ending its \u201clegacy\u201d verification programme \u2013 the one that actually &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/04\/techscape-elon-musk-promised-to-take-away-the-blue-ticks-so-why-hasnt-he\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">TechScape: Elon Musk promised to take away the blue ticks \u2013 so why hasn\u2019t he?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":9528,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9527"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}