Use This Glitch to Return Twitter Confirmation for Some Reason
If you’re seeing a blue check mark on Twitter these days, it’s probably because those accounts are now paying for Twitter Blue, not because they’ve verified their identity with the company. But with a company laying off most of its staff and its digital infrastructure falling apart, you can get your blue check back for free thanks to what appears to be a glitch.
As this tweet from Ali Siegel highlights, all you have to do to get the blue checkmark back is to add the link to the blue checkmark in your bio. That’s all. For example, Siegel specifically used the “former blue tick”, but the details don’t seem to matter. It works with other similar phrases such as ” Heritage blue tick ” so it doesn’t seem to depend on the exact set of words. Once you save your bio and reload the page, you will see the check mark again.
This trick only seems to work if your Twitter was an outdated verified account before Elon took over Twitter Blue. I’ve never had a blue check – paid or not – so it doesn’t matter what I change my bio to, but as long as you have the right combination of “blue” and “check” in your previously checked bio, you’re more likely to be close to yours. the name will again show a blue check mark.
It’s not clear why this is happening, but we can speculate that some kind of bug is causing Twitter to show previously removed confirmation badges when it sees the correct words in a user’s bio. Who knows when the issue will be fixed (if ever), but this is another entry in a long line of watersheds for the social media site.
However, the confusion doesn’t end there. You may know you didn’t pay for Twitter Blue, the rest of the Twitter community will likely think otherwise. In some cases, Twitter will show that your blue checkmark is associated with a Twitter Blue subscription, even if you’ve never subscribed to it before. According to Louis Peitzman , the blue check mark that appears next to his pen is the result of this strange error, as his bio has the word “checks” in it. Twitter will make you believe it exists because Peizman follows Twitter Blue. According to him, “I DID NOT PAY ANYTHING.”
On the other hand, the $8 Chrome extension shows Peizman’s blue checkmark as “Verified” rather than “Paid”. The same goes for the tick of senior technology editor Beth Skwarecki, although she seems to come and go as she pleases. Again, this is all built on some strange glitch.