New Delhi: The age of Twitter’s iconic legacy blue ticks has officially come to an end on April 20. The deadline to remove the legacy verified checkmark on Twitter expires tomorrow. The microblogging site has removed the checkmark from the accounts of non-blue users. Several business leaders have lost the coveted blue tick from April 21, 2023, including former Tata group chairman Ratan Tata, Uday Kotak, and more. This comes after the legacy blue tick expires on April 20, as announced by Twitter.
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Not all leaders have lost the blue tick as many of them have retained the tick for Twitter blue subscription.
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Indian business leaders who have lost their Twitter blue ticks are:
Ratan Dada
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Nikhil Kamath
Rishad Premji
CP Gurnani
Deependra Goyal
Gautam Singhania
Nandan Nilekani
Anupam Mittal
Indian business leaders who keep the tick:
Anand Mahindra
Harsh Goenka
Bhavish Aggarwal
Harsh Mariwala
Nithin Kamath
Microsoft founder Bill Gates, Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, and Joe Ukuzoglu (CEO of Deloitte) are among the top business leaders who lost the coveted blue tick.
Twitter had earlier announced that it would remove all legacy blue checkmarks from non-blue users’ accounts from April 20, 2023.
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Twitter launched its monthly-subscription plan ‘Twitter Blue’ that offers a range of benefits including the coveted blue tick. Twitter Blue subscription price in India is Rs 650 for web and Rs 900 per month for iOS and Android.
Along with verified blue ticks, it offers users many benefits including editing tweets, posting longer videos, having fewer ads, etc.