Halle Berry, Quinta Brunson, Jeffrey Wright and More Flip Twitter the Bird Rather Than Pay for Blue Checks: ‘Bite Me’
thewrap.comvastly overpaid) $44 billion purchase of the site. But at least when it comes to some of Twitter’s most notable celebrity users, he’s sadly (or, if you prefer, hilariously) mistaken.
Glittery Twitterati including Oscar Winner Halle Berry, “Abbott Elementary” creator Quinta Brunson, Tony Award-winner Jeffrey Wright, “and “Mission Impossible” mainstay director Christopher McQuarrie and actress Valerie Bertinelli are giving him the bird.In March, Musk announced that legacy verification checkmarks would go away on April 1.
That is, of course, April Fool’s Day, which is why many assumed he was joking. Naturally, April 1 came and went without the policy coming into effect.
20 days later, almost every “legacy” user still has their blue check — with one notable exception being the New York Times.Last week, Musk announced that legacy blue checks would go away on April 20, and since that date happens to double as one of the most played out cannabis references on earth, it’s still not entirely clear if it’ll actually happen.
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