Twitter legacy Blue badges to vanish on this date: Here's what you need to know
According to reports, some technical challenges held back the company from removing so-called blue ticks quickly at scale and the only way to do it currently was a manual approach.
After faltering on the first deadline, Twitter CEO Elon Musk has now fixed a new deadline to remove all legacy Blue check marks. Musk has said that April 20 is the new deadline to remove legacy Blue badges. The deadline has to be extended because of the lack of backend technology.
According to reports, some technical challenges held back the company from removing so-called blue ticks quickly at scale and the only way to do it currently was a manual approach.
Musk has now stated that the "Final date for removing legacy Blue checks is 4/20".
Details earlier emerged that Musk-run company does not have the backend technology to remove around 4.2 lakh legacy accounts with Blue ticks all at once.
"Removal of verification badges is a largely manual process powered by a system prone to breaking, which draws on a large internal database -- similar to an Excel spreadsheet -- in which verification data is stored, according to the former employees," according to The Washington Post.
"In the past, there was no way to reliably remove badges at a bulk scale -- prompting workers tackling spam, for example, to have to remove check marks one-by-one. It was all held together with duct tape," it added, quoting a former employee.
Musk had earlier given a deadline of April 1 to remove all legacy accounts with Blue verification. The company has so far only removed the Blue tick for The New York Times.
Twitter launched its verification system in 2009 to protect celebrities from impersonation but now, Musk wants everyone to pay $8 a month for the Blue badge.
The White House and The New York Times refused to pay for verified Blue with subscription service.
LeBron James, the highest-paid NBA player of all time and earning over $40 million per year, also refused to pay Twitter.
With IANS inputs
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