WhatsApp check marks explain whether your messages have been sent, delivered, or read. One gray check means the message was sent. Two gray check marks mean it was delivered. When the recipient reads ...

Elon Musk’s Twitter has stirred up a new wave of confusion. After the multibillionaire tech baron made good on his threat to yank Twitter blue check-marks from celebrities who weren’t paying him $8 ...

Elon Musk’s X is reversing a policy that allowed X Premium users to hide the blue check mark that came with their subscription, adding another change to how verification works on the platform. X began ...

What do Twitter’s blue check marks signify? After this weekend, it’s increasingly difficult to figure out. On Thursday, Elon Musk’s Twitter finally followed through on its plan to remove blue ...

Elon Musk’s move to upend Twitter’s longstanding verification system is turning the platform’s iconic blue check marks into a polarizing symbol of his leadership for some of Twitter’s most prominent ...

Twitter has started removing the blue check marks from accounts that have not signed up to its Blue subscription service. Before Elon Musk acquired Twitter last October in a deal worth $44 billion, ...

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Once a coveted status symbol, Twitter’s verification badge — which can be purchased for a monthly fee — is no longer fashionable, according to some users. By Callie Holtermann and Lora Kelley ...