White House director of digital strategy Rob Flaherty says ‘staff may purchase Twitter Blue on their personal social media accounts using personal funds.’
The White House has told its staff that it won’t pay for their Twitter profiles to continue to be verified ahead of the company removing legacy verified checkmarks, Axios reports.
In a Friday email sent to staffers by White House director of digital strategy, Rob Flaherty said: “It is our understanding that Twitter Blue does not provide person-level verification as a service. Thus, a blue check mark will now simply serve as a verification that the account is a paid user.”
President Biden and Vice President Harris will stay verified with gray checkmarks, as will top government officials, but it’s not clear which officials will hold on to the checkmarks, according to a source who spoke to Axios.
