Film stars rejoice as Twitter reinstates legacy blue tick

Film personalities, including Amitabh Bachchan, Priyanka Chopra Jonas and Prakash Raj, on Sunday welcomed Twitter’s move of restoring verification badges on high-profile celebrity accounts, days after the microblogging platform culled the legacy blue check marks. Indian celebrities such as Bachchan, Shah Rukh Khan and Salman Khan, Akshay Kumar, Ajay Devgn and Rajinikanth, among others lost verified blue ticks on their Twitter accounts after Elon Musk’s microblogging site started removing check mark icons from accounts that did not pay the monthly subscription fee. Later, the social media platform reinstated the badges.