Twitter is back in the news again after it returned the blue ticks for select celebrities who have passed away.

Initially, noted personalities lost their verification badges, and then some got them because company CEO Elon Musk paid for them. Musk confirmed this via a tweet. A Twitter account named Pop Base wrote, "Elon Musk reveals he is ‘personally paying’ the Twitter Blue subscriptions of some celebrities to keep their checkmark, such as Lebron James and Stephen King."

Replying to the tweet, Musk wrote, "Just Shatner, LeBron and King."

As per the recent development, several accounts that have over a million followers are reportedly getting back the blue ticks, including the celebrities who had passed away. The accounts are mysteriously getting their blue tick back.

Many deceased personalities including Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput, Hollywood actor Chadwick Boseman, American singer Chester Bennington, basketball player Kobe Bryant, journalist Jamal Khashoggi, musician and dancer Michael Jackson, Canadian comedian Norm Macdonald, former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe, among others have got their blue tick restored.

Though the Blue tick represents that the "account is verified as they are subscribed to Twitter Blue and verified their phone number", as per the Twitter rule, the last activity seen on Rajput, Bryant and Bennington's Twitter accounts was in 2019, 2020 and 2017 respectively.

There has not been any clarification or official statement on the same by Twitter, but numerous reports on the web propose that this could be because of the drive where Twitter is purportedly re-establishing blue ticks for those handles that have more than a million followers.

It is to be noted that not all accounts with a million followers have got back their verification marks. Hollywood actor Ryan Reynold with over 21 million followers has not received the blue tick yet.

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