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I'm no fan of Elon Musk or Twitter/X, but to be fair any user who changes their display name or photo loses their verification and must be re-verified.

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If that is indeed their policy, there must surely be some example of just this happening before these strikes, right?

Yes, according to the linked The Intercept article:

> Twitter’s verification policy temporarily removes verification from accounts that change profile pictures, which the UAW did in conjunction with the walkout.

This is not a prior example like the parent comment asked for

Yes there are prior cases including my own user. They disabled my blue mark couple times in the past because I first changed my user name and the I also changed my user picture. In both cases X/Twitter disabled my blue for couple days. And I am nobody nor anti Elon or pro Elon.

ArsTechnica's journalism was insanely sloppy and flakey on this one. Shame on them.

That's the way it worked before but I don't think it works that way now that you have to pay for the check.

Fair point, it's hard to say what the reality is right now without testing it directly the moment you ask the question. The haphazard management and rapid changes (and rollbacks) means even help docs can be out of date.

According to the verification policy linked by the The Intercept article linked by the Ars Technica article, it is

https://help.twitter.com/en/managing-your-account/about-twit...

It is that way, especially so since being able to pay for the check. That way you don't change your name to Ford (bluecheck) as people did in the beginning of the system.

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