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X is giving blue checks to influential users (which is what blue checks were supposed to be all along)

X is giving free blue checks to users who have more than 2500 "verified" followers (or, people that subscribe to X Premium). So, basically this means that

This also means that these lucky people are frantically posting to make it clear that they didn’t buy a blue check — the bluecheckwasfoisteduponthem. So if someone was popular on Twitter, perhaps because they’re a celebrity, an influencer or a journalist, they would get a blue check, which could also help reduce the spread of misinformation. Until today, having a blue check meant one of a few things: you’re desperate to feel important, you really want to use X’s premium features, you’re being impersonated so much that it’s worth giving Elon Musk $8 a month, or you’re a crypto spam bot.

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