The site formerly known as Twitter is giving premium access to those with more than 2,500 verified...
X, formerly Twitter, is giving blue ticks to its most "Influential" users in a significant change of policy.
Those with more than 2,500 verified followers - people already paying for X Premium - have been given premium features for free.
As well as the blue tick, the users will see fewer adverts on X.Blue ticks were originally a way to verify users were who they claimed to be, but they became a paid-for feature after Elon Musk purchased the site.
People with more than 5,000 verified followers have been given free access to Premium+, which removes almost all adverts and ranks their tweets even higher when replying to another person.
Before X was bought by Mr Musk, the blue tick was a badge of verification given for free by the platform.
The blue tick was once seen as a marker of a person's authoritativeness on the site, as only a few people could become verified, such as celebrities, government workers and journalists.
Under the billionaire, the blue tick instead became a symbol showing that an account had subscribed to X Premium - previously called Twitter Blue - with a verification process attached to that payment.
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