Those making it clear they do not subscribe to Twitter Blue include Chrissy Teigen and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Twitter re-verified many users with massive followings over the weekend, just days after purging the site’s famed blue verification check marks from accounts that don’t pay for Twitter Blue, leading some celebrities and journalists—and at least one major university—to insist they didn’t sign up for Twitter owner Elon Musk’s $8-per-month subscription service.Key Facts
New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman on Sunday shared a screenshot of her verified account, along with a disclosure saying she has subscribed to Twitter Blue and has verified her phone number, writing “(Did not subscribe).”
Comedian and actor Ben Schwartz questioned Sunday why his blue check mark returned, tweeting “I didn’t subscribe to anything.”
Actor Elijah Wood noticed Sunday his blue check mark reappeared just three days after he bid farewell to it, while astrophysicist and TV personality Neil deGrasse Tyson sounded more bemused than annoyed when his verification was suddenly restored: “The Universe brims with mysteries,” deGrasse Tyson wrote Sunday.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology posted on Saturday: “We did not subscribe to Twitter Blue.
