blue check
English edit
Etymology edit
From the blue check mark badge that was previously displayed beside the names of such users.
Noun edit
blue check (plural blue checks)
- (Internet slang, sometimes derogatory) A Twitter user whose account was verified by Twitter as authentic (i.e. not a parody or imposter account) and deemed to be of public interest prior to this system's replacement by a paid verification scheme in early 2023.
- Synonyms: blue check mark, blue tick
- 2016 January 27, Adelle Platon, “Wiz Khalifa, John Mayer & More React to Kanye West's 'Waves' Album Name Change”, in Billboard:
- Other blue checks on Twitter also weighed including Questlove and John Mayer.
- 2020, Joanne McNeil, Lurking: How a Person Became a User, unnumbered page:
- It is a cardboard gold crown, but it helps in certain cases; for example, Twitter support will prioritize intervention requests when trolls attack a blue check.
- 2020 July 16, Seth J. Frantzman, “Many celebrate as verified Twitter users unable to tweet due to hack”, in The Jerusalem Post:
- Some posted images of the French Revolution or the Korean film ‘Parasite’ as a way to show the feelings of the masses when the powerful “elites” of Twitter could not use their accounts. This is due to a perception that many “blue checks” only retweet each other and that the social media giant somehow prioritizes these verified accounts.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:blue check.
Further reading edit
Twitter verification on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
