What are blue checks on Twitter? Why were verified accounts unable to post on Wednesday?

Twitter faced biggest hack in its history on Wednesday where everything just went south for website. Verified accounts of popular public figures like Bill Gates, Elon Musk got hacked and hackers were spamming social media platform. This resulted in Twitter putting a temporary muzzle on verified accounts. However, issue has w been resolved but resulted in a lot of confusion and panic among some users online.

What are blue checks on Twitter accounts?

A blue tickmark or checkmark next to a Twitter account name is used by social media as a testimony to aunticity of account. So usually it is shown next to names of big-name accounts like celebrities, companies, and accounts of Government personals. A blue tick next to a name is a good thing as helps netizens to differentiate between fake accounts and real accounts.

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Twitter bitcoin hack and Twitter Bitcoin scam

On Wednesday, Twitter restricted all verified accounts from tweeting anything after a team of hackers started spamming from big-name accounts which y had hacked. tweets sent out by hacked-verified accounts were reportedly about scams. Moreover, tweets were a way to persuade people to give ir bitcoins and in exchange, y would be sent double amount.

So, when verified account holders tried to tweet from ir accounts during temporary muzzle, y got an automated mess. mess read:

This request looks like it might be automated. To protect our users from spam and or malicious activity, we can't complete this action right w. Please try again later.

whole hacking incident resulted in a bad day for Twitter. Many Twitter accounts with millions of followers were compromised. Though issue was resolved later, by 6 pm PT.

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Unverified accounts started a memefest

Meanwhile, re were several netizens who started a meme fest about verified accounts being unable to tweet. Moreover, re were tweets that said that it was time for unverified accounts to shine. re were several or users online who shared GIFs and videos to taunt silenced accounts. Check out some of tweets below.

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