Bollywood actress Dia Mirza took to Twitter to question about the social networking site not having a verification badge despite being an active member.
Updated May 21, 2023 | 09:55 PM IST
On Sunday, the ‘Rehna Hai Tere Dil Mein’ actress took to Twitter to request the restoration of the Twitter blue tick on her Twitter account.
She wrote, “Have a verified Twitter account since 2010. This account still doesn’t have a blue tick despite subscribing before the verified tick disappears on accounts. Why? All the other benefits of subscribing are working, including Includes option for longer tweets. Can you please take a look at this @Twitter @TwitterBlue and help?”
There were a lot of reactions from the fans on this post of the ‘Dus’ actor.
One social media user suggested, “If you have changed your profile picture, it will take a week for the blue tick to reappear.” To which Dia Mirza replied, “Profile picture hasn’t changed”.
Another user commented, “Strange. You should have got the blue tick back for free, as there are >1m subscribers. This happened to other 1m+ handles.”
A fan wrote, “You don’t need a blue tick. Everyone knows you. You are a good soul.”
Earlier, on April 1, Twitter removed blue ticks from verified accounts following the implementation of a paid subscription service charging USD 8 for blue verification badges on the microblogging site.
Apart from Dia, B-town celebrities including Amitabh Bachchan, Shah Rukh Khan and Alia Bhatt, politicians CM Yogi Adityanath, Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi and cricketers Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma are among those who lost blue ticks verified from their Twitter accounts. Have given. But, others got the badge back after a few days.
Twitter first introduced the blue check mark system in 2009 to help users identify whether celebrities, politicians, companies and brands, news organizations and other accounts “of public interest” were genuine and impostor or parody accounts. were not The company did not charge for verification earlier.
On the work front, Dia will next be seen in ‘Dhak Dhak’ directed by Tarun Dudeja alongside Ratna Pathak Shah, Fatima Sana Shaikh and Sanjana Sanghi. She was last seen in ‘Bheed’ alongside Rajkummar Rao, Bhumi Pednekar and Ashutosh Rana in lead roles.