Did you ever see Christopher Nolan's movie? Something like Tenet, where time doesn't make sense. The blue and grey checkmark saga is beginning to feel like that.
The events have been summarized here. The blue checkmark was used to prove identity. The blue checkmark was rendered useless by the new CEO when he made it a perk of purchasing a subscription to the service. The blue checkmark was replaced by an additional gray checkmark to prove a user's identity after a wave of impersonations and crude jokes.
The gray checkmark was no good. He said he killed it. He said that the blue check would be the leveler. The jokes started again.
The gray "OFFICIAL" checkmark was brought back on some accounts, including the official account. The Coca Cola company is one of the accounts that have it. There is a checkmark on the account of the President of the United States. The official account of the United Nations does not have a grey checkmark at the moment.
As an example of how messy this has been, we present to you the official support account, whose two latest posts at writing time, one above the other, contradict one another: One says the company is not putting an "OFFICIAL" label on accounts, and the other says
You can't make this stuff up. Credit: Stan Schroeder/Twitter
Musk didn't directly address the back and forth, but he did say that "Twitter will do a lot of dumb things in coming months." He said that the gray checkmark was a way of creating a two class system. We assume that the two class system is back.
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There are far too many corrupt Blue'verification' checkmarks and the company has no choice but to remove legacy Blue.
It is not clear what one needs to do to get a checkmark. Government accounts, commercial companies, business partners, major media outlets, publishers and some public figures will not be able to purchase the grey checkmarks.
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