Welcome to the Tech Mem Right Home for Monday, April 3rd, 2023. I'm Brian McCullough today.

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Here's what you miss today in the world of tech. So the changeover and Blue Check regimes came to Twitter over the weekend, except maybe it didn't.

Maybe it did for some, but not for others, and then kind of, it definitely did and then didn't for everyone.

What?

I'll let John Prosser explain from the verge.

Quote, for starters, with the exception of one major corporate account,

legacy verified checkmarks don't appear to have actually started disappearing

for any of the accounts we viewed.

What has changed is that Twitter has stopped

officially distinguishing them between legacy verified users and accounts

that pay for Twitter Blue. Click on the verified Blue badge for

Verge editor-in-Chief

Nelai Patel, for example, and you'll see a message that reads,

quote, this account is verified because it's subscribed to Twitter Blue

or is a legacy verified account."

In a since deleted tweet captured by Matt Bender,

Elon Musk said that legacy verified accounts would be given,

quote, a few weeks grace before seeing their check marks

removed. But a report from the Washington Post suggests there may be technical challenges

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