Elon Musk says the way that Twitter used to hand out verified blue ticks was ‘corrupt and nonsensical’

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Elon Musk on Monday slammed how Twitter used to hand out verified blue ticks to users on the platform.

“The way in which they were given out was corrupt and nonsensical,” Musk wrote in a tweet.

Before Musk acquired Twitter in late October, the company gave out blue ticks to celebrities, government officials, journalists, and other high-profile users on the platform for free. However, this is set to change after the new Twitter Blue was relaunched on Monday.

“In a few months, we will remove all legacy blue checks,” Musk also said in the post.

Musk was responding to a screenshot shared on Twitter of a “Verified account” tab which pops up when users click the blue checkmark next to an account’s name. The tab says: “This is a legacy verified account. It may or may not be notable.”

Musk posted another reply to the photo, saying: “The wording is mine lol.”

Twitter didn’t immediately respond to Insider’s request for comment.

Musk has previously criticized the company’s former verification policy through which users received blue checkmarks as a “lords & peasants system.”

He has also said that “far too many corrupt Blue ‘verification’ checkmarks exist” so there was no choice but to remove legacy ticks.

Musk has argued that the updated Twitter Blue subscription, which will charge for verification, is expected to “destroy the bots” because a paid account will be suspended if it engages in spam or scams. The billionaire has laid out plans to charge Twitter Blue users $8 per month if they pay via the website or $11 a month if they pay on their iPhone.

Twitter has faced some hiccups with the rollout of its Blue service. The company had to suspend Blue after it was launched in November because of a surge in impersonations on the site.

Blue was put on hold again in late November while Musk attempted to avoid the 30% charge that Apple’s App Store takes from most in-app transactions.