{"id":9739,"date":"2023-04-23T19:38:31","date_gmt":"2023-04-23T17:38:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/23\/twitter-restores-blue-tick-free-of-charge-to-celebrities-in-u-turn\/"},"modified":"2023-04-23T19:38:31","modified_gmt":"2023-04-23T17:38:31","slug":"twitter-restores-blue-tick-free-of-charge-to-celebrities-in-u-turn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/23\/twitter-restores-blue-tick-free-of-charge-to-celebrities-in-u-turn\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter restores \u2018blue tick\u2019 free of charge to celebrities in U-turn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Decision to reinstate \u2018verified\u2019 status without distinguishing paid-for from free users prompts criticism for \u2018false advertising\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Twitter has again U-turned over its verification policy, restoring the \u201cblue tick\u201d free of charge to celebrity users of the social network.<\/p>\n<p>But the site\u2019s decision to reinstate the \u201cverified\u201d status without distinguishing between paid-for and free users has led to criticism for false advertising, since the boilerplate disclaimer for those users inaccurately describes their status as being granted \u201cbecause they are subscribed to Twitter Blue\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2023\/apr\/23\/twitter-restores-blue-tick-free-of-charge-to-celebrities-in-u-turn\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/1dce7faa066bfb3a9d72e3d9e55ca4384a2129b0\/0_499_7482_4489\/master\/7482.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=a4c96b73febd649a1575f60555919c2a\" title=\"Twitter restores \u2018blue tick\u2019 free of charge to celebrities in U-turn\" \/>Decision to reinstate \u2018verified\u2019 status without distinguishing paid-for from free users prompts criticism for \u2018false advertising\u2019<br \/>\nTwitter has again U-turned over its verification policy, restoring the \u201cblue tick\u201d free of charge to celebrity users of the social network.<br \/>\nBut the site\u2019s decision to reinstate the \u201cverified\u201d status without distinguishing between paid-for and free users has led to criticism for false advertising, since the boilerplate disclaimer for those users inaccurately describes their status as being granted \u201cbecause they are subscribed to Twitter Blue\u201d. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Decision to reinstate \u2018verified\u2019 status without distinguishing paid-for from free users prompts criticism for \u2018false advertising\u2019 Twitter has again U-turned over its verification policy, restoring the \u201cblue tick\u201d free of charge to celebrity users of the social network. But the site\u2019s decision to reinstate the \u201cverified\u201d status without distinguishing between paid-for and free users has &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/23\/twitter-restores-blue-tick-free-of-charge-to-celebrities-in-u-turn\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Twitter restores \u2018blue tick\u2019 free of charge to celebrities in U-turn<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":9740,"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\/9739"}],"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=9739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}