Twitter has started handing out blue verification badges to celebrity users and accounts with over one million followers, just days after winding down the old system. This move comes after Elon Musk criticized Twitter’s previous verification system and announced that the platform would start charging for verification. However, some users who received the verification claim they did not pay for the service, including author Neil Gaiman, actor Ron Perlman, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Twitter comic dril.
