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Twitter adds Official badge, then Musk immediately kills it

The new “Official” label was announced, and then less than 24 hours later, was removed. Twitter has announced this week that there are now two different verification checkmarks you can have displayed on your profile. Then in response to one creator commenting that his “official” badge disappeared, Elon Musk announced, “I just killed it.” Twitter product liaison Esther Crawford posted about the new feature, noting the distinction between TwitterBlue subscribers and the “Official” badge. A day later, Marques Brownlee posted that his “official” badge which had been on his profile for…

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