It has been a rollercoaster few months with Elon Musk at the head of Twitter. Spammers and impersonators rush to buy the blue ticks, experts warn of a flood of disinformation and Twitter quickly rows back the launch. Twitter Blue, take twoIn mid-December Musk relaunches Twitter Blue. Twitter later changes it to "government-funded" instead and expands its use, prompting outlets including NPR and Canada's CBC to announce they will no longer use the platform. Blue ticks check outThis week, the accounts that had been verified pre-Musk finally lose their blue ticks en masse.

Source: The Star April 21, 2023 12:27 UTC