Twitter Inexplicably Adds Verification Back to Some Accounts, Including Dead Celebrities

that the NBA star had received an email from Twitter offering a comped subscription, but James had never responded to it to accept the subscription.

By Sunday, the platform appeared to reverse course, adding the blue check badge back to the accounts of users who were previously verified, but now with a badge description denoting that they subscribe to Twitter Blue. Impacted accounts have included living celebrities like Kardashian, James Gunn and Lil Nas X, who now all have a blue check mark, as well as those who have died. That includes Chadwick Boseman, Anthony Bourdain, Norm Macdonald, Michael Jackson and Kobe Bryant, among others.

Some of Twitter’s co-founders also received their verification back but former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey was notably

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