bye Bye! At midnight, Twitter blue ticks of top celebrities including CM Yogi, Shah Rukh Khan, Amitabh Bachchan disappeared.

Several B-town celebrities including Shah Rukh Khan, Amitabh Bachchan, Alia Bhatt, cricketers Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma and politicians like CM Yogi Adityanath, Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi have lost their verified blue tick due to Twitter’s decision to remove the legacy verified blue tick.

Micro-blogging site Twitter on Thursday removed blue ticks from all legacy verified accounts. Users now visible on Twitter who have a verified Blue checkmark have subscribed and paid for the Twitter Blue service, which costs $8 per month for web users and $11 per month for in-app users on iOS and Android.

Several B-town celebrities including Shah Rukh Khan, Amitabh Bachchan, Alia Bhatt, cricketers Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma and politicians like CM Yogi Adityanath, Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi have lost their verified blue tick due to Twitter’s decision to remove the legacy verified blue tick. First, microblogging site Twitter provides a verified blue check mark at no charge under the Notables category.

After the company was acquired by Elon Musk came the concept of Twitter Blue or business focused Twitter Verified Organizations. Under which any business entity or individual can get their Twitter handle verified by paying the prescribed charges.

Its purpose is to help users identify themselves, celebrities, politicians, companies and brands news organizations and other accounts of public interest are real. And not a fake or parody account. But according to the new rule, anyone can get a blue checkmark. All they have to do is subscribe to the Twitter Blue service and pay the prescribed charges. In this way, parody accounts have also been verified with a blue checkmark.