2019, Erik Halvorson, "Past wrongs should be met with grace and forgiveness", The Hillside Collegian (Hillsdale College), 14 February 2019, page A5:
But when records of bad decisions find their way into the spotlight, it is seemingly impossible to keep the pitchfork-wielding blue checkmarks at bay.
2019, Tom Woods, "Stop Whining", The Jewish Press, 3 January 2020, page 6:
Or you can be Shailja Patel, a Twitter blue checkmark.
2020, Sean Casey, "The view from the twilight zone", The Stanford Daily (Stanford University), 26 February 2020, page 4:
But on the night of the caucuses, disaster! The blue checkmarks of rose Twitter caught wind of your plot!
2020, Ryan Bort, "The MAGA Mouthpiece", Rolling Stone, March 2020, page 42:
"I do think that some of the blue-checkmark brigade backlash on Twitter that you all in the media so predictably overreact to is non-organic," he says, using the Trumpworld shorthand for "verified" Twitter users. (Gaetz is a verified Twitter user.)
2020, Jonah Goldberg, "Attacks on a decent man", St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 11 June 2020, page A11:
And the way liberals attacked Romney's presidential campaign on opinion pages of newspapers, news broadcasts and in the media echo chamber of blue checkmark Twitter, has a lot to do with how the next election went – and how this one will go.