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Shortly after he purchased Twitter for $44 billion, Musk reportedly warned staff the social media platform might go bankrupt without “significant subscription revenue,” especially as advertising revenue dipped in the months following Musk’s takeover.

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Musk has threatened to upend Twitter’s old practice of only verifying notable accounts since buying the social media platform last year, calling it a “lords & peasants system”-but the change to paid verification is also driven by revenue. In addition to verification, Twitter Blue subscribers receive other perks for their $8 per month subscription fee, like the ability to use two-step authentication safety features. In an apparent move to increase subscriptions to Twitter Blue, Musk on Thursday removed so-called “legacy” blue check marks from most accounts whose identities had been verified before he took over the company, unless users subscribe to Twitter Blue. Some have speculated that Twitter restored blue check marks to accounts with over 1 million followers-though some accounts without this quantity of followers have received a blue check. How many followers an account needs to be re-verified. Accounts belonging to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez (who died in 2013), chef Anthony Bourdain (who died in 2018) and singer Chester Bennington (who died in 2017) all have blue check marks and notes claiming they subscribed to Twitter Blue. Living celebrities aren’t the only ones whose verification status has returned.