Quite a few ‘Recognised’ Twitter accounts noticed their Blue Ticks being taken away on Friday morning. Among those that had been left with out the Verified Checkmarks had been ace cricketing personalities like Virat Kohli, MS Dhoni, Sachin Tendulkar, and so on. The transfer by Twitter led to questions being raised by followers. One of the followers even requested the Master Blaster Sachin Tendulkar about how he would know who the actual Sachin Tendulkar is on Twitter with out the Blue Chekmark. The Master Blaster gave a phenomenal response to the frightened fan.

“Now that, you don’t have the blue tick, how can we be sure that you’re the real Sachin Tendulkar?,” fan requested.

“As of now, this is my blue tick verification!,” Tendulkar mentioned with an image of him smiling.

As of now, that is my blue tick verification! https://t.co/BSk5U0zKkp pic.twitter.com/OEqBTM1YL2

— Sachin Tendulkar (@sachin_rt) April 21, 2023

The legacy blue checkmarks had been beforehand granted to journalists, public officers, and celebrities without spending a dime as a measure towards impersonation and spam on the social media platform.

Twitter, which was taken over by enterprise magnate and Tesla CEO Elon Musk final yr, nevertheless, eliminated the blue ticks from accounts that do not pay a month-to-month subscription for the service on Thursday.

“Tomorrow, 4/20, we are removing legacy verified checkmarks,” the official Twitter Verified account had tweeted on Wednesday.

Apart from the above trio, World Cup-winning captain MS Dhoni, Rohit Sharma, Olympic medallists Saina Nehwal, Neeraj Chopra and Bajrang Punia, wrestler Vinesh Phogat, two-time World Boxing Champion Nikhat Zareen, Sania Mirza, Indian soccer group skipper Sunil Chhetri, males’s hockey goalkeeper PR Sreejesh had been amongst a plethora of Indian sporting icons who’ve misplaced their blue ticks.

Tennis nice Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal, footballers Cristiano Ronaldo and Kylian Mbappe and basketball legend Stephen Curry are additionally not “verified” on the social media platform.

From now on, solely people and organisations that pay for the premium Twitter Blue subscription will get the verified credential on their profiles.

The Twitter Blue subscription is accessible for a month-to-month payment of Rs 650 on the net and Rs 900 on cellular gadgets.

With PTI inputs