Celebs turn red as blue tick vanishes

On Thursday, the Twitter verification tag, that is the blue tick, was removed from the accounts of several individuals after the micro-blogging site, under the leadership of Elon Musk, decided to make it a paid service. Celebrities including Salman Khan, Amitabh Bachchan, Shah Rukh Khan, Deepika Padukone, and Shahid Kapoor, among others, lost the blue tick on their accounts, which sparked a series of interesting reactions. Shahid made light of a dialogue from his hit film, Kabir Singh, and wrote, “Mere blue tick ko kisne touch kiya? Elon, tu wahi ruk, main aaraha hu.” Bachchan had his followers in splits as he appealed to Twitter to return his blue tick. Revealing that he had even paid for the subscription, he wrote in Awadhi: “Ae twitter bhaiya! Sun rahe hain? Ab toh paisa bhi bhar diye hai hum. Toh ou jo neel kamal hot hai na, hamaar naam ke aage ou toh waapas laga de bhaiya.” Bachchan said he needed the blue tick so that “people know that I am Amitabh Bachchan”. “I have already folded my hands in front of you. Now do I fold my feet as well?” Aditi Rao Hydari tweeted, “Once upon a time there was a blue tick. Did Twitter and I live happily ever after?” Comedian Vir Das wrote, “Bye blue tick. I’m okay with someone impersonating me on Twitter. You deal with the things they call me. I like this world. To verify an artiste, buy tickets, not ticks.”

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