Bollywood Celebs turn red as twitter blue verification tick wither away
Bollywood Celebs turn red as twitter blue verification tick wither away
A range of intriguing reactions emerged when twitter’s ‘blue verification tick’ of Bollywood celebrities, including Amitabh Bachchan, Salman Khan Shah Rukh Khan, Deepika Padukone Shahid Kapoor and Aditi Rao Hydari among others withered away and they turned ‘red’.
On Thursday, reportedly, twitter ‘blue” verification tag vanished into thin air from the accounts of several individuals that included B’wood celebs when Elon Musk took a decision to make the micro-blogging site a paid service.
Shahid made light of a dialogue from his hit film, Kabir Singh, and wrote, “Mere blue tick ko kisne touch kiya? Elon, tu wahi ruk, main aaraha hu.”
Bachchan had his followers in splits as he appealed to twitter to return his blue tick. He had revealed that he had even paid for the subscription, and wrote in Awadhi: “Ae twitter bhaiya! Sun rahe hain? Ab toh paisa bhi bhar diye hai hum. Toh ou jo neel kamal hot hai na, hamaar naam ke aage ou toh waapas laga de bhaiya.” Bachchan said he needed the blue tick so that “people know that I am Amitabh Bachchan”. “I have already folded my hands in front of you. Now do I fold my feet as well?” whereas Aditi Rao Hydari tweeted, “Once upon a time there was a blue tick. Did Twitter and I live happily ever after?” Comedian Vir Das wrote, “Bye blue tick. I’m okay with someone impersonating me on Twitter. You deal with the things they call me. I like this world.
To verify an artiste, buy tickets, not ticks.”
News input KV Raman
