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Twitter CEO Elon Musk has changed the description on the platform’s verified checkmark labels once more. The labels now make no mention of Twitter Blue, the paid version of the social network. Blue subscribers have subjected to massive scorn, and altering the label may helpMusk avoid potential lawsuits from angry celebrities who want nothing to do with his blue checkmarks but who have received them anyway.Twitter Verification is a Hot MessThe change appears to have been implemented on Tuesday night, which is when it was…

Twitter CEO Elon Musk forced blue checkmarks on dozens of celebrities and other high-profile users after they refused to pay for Twitter Blue subscriptions in the latest chapter of the blue checkmark apocalypse this weekend. However, blinded by his urge to troll and embarrass the celebrities who wouldn’t pay him $8, Musk accidentally gave blue checkmarks to several dead people.Musk randomly adorned the Twitter profiles of various deceased celebrities, including Norm Macdonald, Anthony Bourdain, Chadwick Boseman, Kobe…

Donald Trump, founder and former board chairman of Truth Social parent company Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG), has been arrested in New York City. The tech pioneer turned himself into police custody around 1:30 P.M. ET after weeks of whispers surrounding if and when he would be indicted and arraigned for charges related to an alleged hush money payout to adult film star, Stormy Daniels.Trump wrote on his social network, “Heading to Lower Manhattan, the Courthouse. Seems so SURREAL—WOW, they are going to ARREST…

The list comes from Twitter engineers monitoring the site’s recommendation algorithm.Image: Tom Williams-Pool (Getty Images), Phillip Faraone (Getty Images), Jason Kempin (Getty Images)As us plebeians are getting our legacy blue checkmarks yanked out of our hands and CEO Elon Musk tweets about “treating everyone equally,” I regret to inform you that there is a shadowy group of 35 VIPs that Twitter has been pushing onto your timeline.According to a report from Platformer, Twitter isn’t really interested in treating…

Image: Bethany Clarke (Getty Images)Twitter CEO Elon Musk announced he was making his Twitter account private early on Wednesday to determine the level of engagement his tweets received. Musk made the decision after Ian Miles Cheong, a right-wing commentator and regular rabble rouser tweeted that he had set his account to private on Tuesday and found that he received more likes and views on his posts while in private mode. He said the results showed that the same tweet received more engagement when his account was private…

Taylor Lorenz / Washington Post: An interview with @dril on Elon Musk's Twitter, which he says is “a work in progress”, like Hyperloop, and will be a “beautiful thing at the end of the day” — The ‘patron saint of the internet’ tells The Post he'll never pay for verification but will learn to code if Musk offers him a job Taylor Lorenz / Washington Post: An interview with @dril on Elon Musk's Twitter, which he says is “a work in progress”, like…

Twitter’s massive staff exodus this week has some users worried that the best of the platform is officially behind us. Image: Lionel Bonaventure (Getty Images)As Twitter under Elon Musk keeps orbiting the edge of a black hole that could bring about the social media platform’s inevitable demise, we can still have a little bit of fun.Self-proclaimed creative director Nathan Allebach put together a massive Google Doc that has nearly every meme template you could ever dream of using on Twitter. The 107-page Doc lists nearly…

What Twitter looked like back in 2011.Photo: Oli Scarff (Getty Images)Twitter employees left the company in droves Thursday, choosing to take a severance rather than stick around for whatever Elon Musk has in store. And that mass exodus left many Twitter users to assume the site will eventually just stop working. In that apocalyptic spirit, Twitter users were remembering all the things they loved about the site on Thursday, and I couldn’t help but think of all the hilarious tweets that have become lodged in my brain over…