(AP) — This time it’s for real.
Many of Twitter’s high-profile users are have lost the blue check marks that helped verify their identity and distinguish them from impostors on the Elon Musk-owned social media platform.
After several false starts, Twitter began making good on its promise Thursday to remove the blue checks from accounts that don’t pay a monthly fee to keep them.
Twitter had about 300,000 verified users under the original blue check system — many of them journalists, athletes and public figures.
