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TECH T@LK

Musk introduces Live video feature,

allows users to hide blue tick

OUR BUREAU two weeks of the company’s takeover last year.
On April 1, Twitter removed blue ticks from
San Francisco, CA
verified accounts, following the implementation of
fter introducing a feature to hide the Blue paid subscription service which charges USD 8 for
tick, X CEO Elon Musk has come up with a a blue verification badge on the microblogging site.
ALive video feature. Taking to Twitter, Musk B-town celebrities including Amitabh Bach-
updated fans with the new option and tweeted, chan, Shah Rukh Khan and Alia Bhatt, politicians
“Live video now works reasonably well. Just tap the CM Yogi Adityanath, Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka
button that looks like a camera when you post.” Gandhi and cricketers Virat Kohli and Rohit Shar-
He also tested a live option and shared a hilar- ma are among those who lost their verified blue
ious video featuring himself and his teammates. He ticks from their Twitter accounts. But, others got
also flaunted his dumbbell and weight-lifting skills. the badge back after a few days.
On Thursday, X CEO introduced a new feature to As per the Mashable website report, for sub- Notably, on July 24, Twitter replaced its rec-
hide the Blue tick. scribers to Twitter Blue, the “Hide your blue check- ognisable bird logo with the letter “X” as its new
According to the Help page of the micro-blog- mark” option is visible in the “Profile Customiza- official mark.
ging site, one of the features reads, “Hide your tion” page in your Account Settings. Earlier, Musk, also the CEO of Tesla, said
checkmark: As a subscriber, you can choose to Twitter first introduced the blue check mark after certain organisational changes, the number
hide your checkmark on your account. The check system in 2009 to help users identify celebrities, of monthly users of social media site X, formerly
mark will be hidden on your profile and posts. The politicians, companies, brands, news organizations known as Twitter, had hit a “new high.”
checkmark may still appear in some places and and other accounts “of public interest” as genuine He posted a graph of user statistics that indi-
some features could still reveal you have an active and not impostors or parody accounts. The compa- cated the most recent count to be above 540 mil-
subscription. Some features may not be available ny didn’t previously charge for verification. lion. In the post, Musk also referred to this design
while your checkmark is hidden. We will continue Musk launched Twitter Blue with the check- as an “interim” one, suggesting that there may be
to evolve this feature to make it better for you.” mark badge as one of the premium perks within other logo changes in the future.

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