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We don't know if this is Twitter CEO Elon Musk's idea of a joke, but this was part of the social media account's plan anyway. Twitter announced it would "begin winding down [its] legacy verified program and removing legacy verified checkmarks" starting April 1.
This announcement comes as Twitter makes its Blue subscription available worldwide. So, if you want to keep your checkmark/verification, you must pay for the subscription. It costs CAD 8.75 per month on an annual plan or CAD 10 per month. Meanwhile, organizations need to pay around USD 1,000 (around CAD 1,370). Other benefits include 4,000-character tweets, edit post options, and higher reply rankings. Now, we have to wait and see if people will be willing to pay monthly for these perks.