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This seems like a problem caused because they retained the blue tick at all. Now that they're shedding the old branding, they should drop it completely and create a premium badge.

What was once the blue tick now seems to be the gold tick, and it doesn't just go to insiders, it goes to anybody with $1K a month to pay for it. You can do plenty of account verification for $1K/mo customers.

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I use the eight dollar extension [1]. Basically it replaces the blue verified tick with a dollar sign for paid accounts. I started using it when there was a still a mix of old verified and new paid accounts, both of which were given the same verified sign by twitter, but I kept it even after because it feels more truthful to reality, as it just informs that one has paid to twitter. I think this should be the default.

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/eightdollars/

Do you have a screenshot of what the feed looks like?

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