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X, formerly Twitter, is giving blue ticks to its most “influential” users in a significant change of policy.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/section>\n

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Those with more than 2,500 verified followers – people already paying for X Premium – have been given premium features for free.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

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As well as the blue tick, the users will see fewer adverts on X.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

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The social media platform also\u00a0announced it was clearing bots\u00a0so people may notice follower numbers decreasing.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

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Blue ticks were originally a way to verify users were who they claimed to be, but they became a paid-for feature after Elon Musk purchased the site.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

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However, according to messages received by people who have been given the features, it is now being given out without cost if a person is an “influential member of the community”.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

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Premium users also see their tweets ranked higher when replying to others, and it enables them to apply for revenue sharing from adverts on the site.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

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Meanwhile, people with more than 5,000 verified followers have been given free access to Premium+, which removes almost all adverts and ranks their tweets even higher when replying to another person.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

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It comes after Mr Musk announced the feature in late March.<\/p>\n

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Before X was bought by Mr Musk, the blue tick was a badge of verification given for free by the platform.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

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It was originally used as a tool of authentication, designed to help stop fake accounts and the spread of misinformation.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

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The blue tick was once seen as a marker of a person’s authoritativeness on the site, as only a few people could become verified, such as celebrities, government workers and journalists.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

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Mr Musk disliked this system, which he criticised as creating a split between “lords and peasants”.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

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Under the billionaire, the blue tick instead became a symbol showing that an account had subscribed to X Premium – previously called Twitter Blue – with a verification process attached to that payment.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

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But now it has become a combination of the two – with a person simply seen as prominent if they are followed by enough people with a checkmark of their own.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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