[Curiosities] Pope Francis, Bill Gates and Cristiano Ronaldo, among the people who have missed the check mark

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This Thursday, the social network Twitter removed the blue label from all those accounts that have refused to pay the $8 monthly fee for Twitter Blue.

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Twitter on Thursday began removing legacy blue checkmarks from user profiles, and famous people including Pope Francis, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo lost their verified status.

Yesterday the social network removed the blue tag from those accounts that have refused to pay the $8 monthly Twitter Blue subscription fee established by Musk that allows its owners, in addition to blue verification, to edit tweets, write longer messages and appear preferentially in the "feed" over other accounts that do not pay.

Hours later, Musk announced that he would personally pay the monthly fee to maintain the blue label to three specific people who had refused to pay it: actor William Shatner, basketball player LeBron James and author Stephen King.

Only 0.2% of network users pay for Twitter Blue. In March, Twitter Blue had around 116,000 confirmed subscriptions across the web, up 138% from the previous month, according to Similarweb.

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