The blue check has been removed on the The New York Times account.
After Twitter was supposed to begin removing verified check marks from accounts that wouldn't pay for the platform’s new subscription service, many verified accounts appear to have kept their check marks except for The New York Times.
The NYT's main account, which has 54.9 million followers, no longer had a check mark. Twitter CEO Elon Musk tweeted on Sunday that the newspaper's page would lose the verification symbol.
The announcement came in response to a Twitter user, DogeDesigner, who tweeted saying, the "New York Times says It Won’t Pay For Twitter Verification," accompanied by a laughing emoji and a meme featuring the Times' logo and Musk saying, "See, no one cares!"
Twitter announced last month that it would begin winding down its former free verification system on Saturday, removing the check marks from accounts the company had previously determined were authentic and in the public interest.
The Times’ other Twitter accounts — including New York Times World, NYT Science and New York Times Opinion — also retained their verified check marks Sunday afternoon.
The Times is the 19th most-followed account on Twitter, according to the social media analytics tool SocialTracker.
We reached out to RightNow News if they would pay for the blue check mark for branded RNN Twitter accounts like RNN Breaking News, Your Weather Center, RNN Network, and the other accounts. RightNow News is part of the train of companies like news organizations to not pay.
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