Elon Musk and co. are making a serious change to Twitter beginning this month — and it is going have an effect on nearly each verified celeb on the market … lots of whom aren’t comfortable about it.

After all, we’re speaking in regards to the coveted blue checkmarks — which, for years, have served because the official verification system on the fowl app … to differentiate outstanding public figures and different folks of observe from all of the normies. Phrase is, that is all coming to an finish in April.

Going ahead, Elon has stated he’ll begin charging folks $8/month for Twitter Blue subscriptions — giving ’em the choice to purchase their blue verify. Not simply that, however he is discontinuing legacy verifications … that stripping-down is meant to begin immediately, April 1st.

In different phrases, all the celebs which have loved official verification standing are going to be similar to the remainder of us — and an excellent handful are already mourning, Chrissy Teigen included.

She jokingly bid her blue verify standing farewell with a cheeky response … indicating she ain’t ponying up the money to remain verified. Ditto for a ton of different celebs, a few of whom appear genuinely peeved about this. Jason Alexander says he is outta right here if he loses his verify.

William Shatner additionally just lately sounded fairly irritated by the shortage of checks and balances in Twitter’s new house, writing … “Hey @elonmusk what’s this about blue checks going away except we pay Twitter? I’ve been right here for 15 years giving my ⏰ & witty ideas all for bupkis. Now you’re telling me that I’ve to pay for one thing you gave me without spending a dime? What’s this-the Colombia Data & Tape Membership?” And Dionne Warwick, too, griped about it.

She writes, “I’m not paying for a blue verify. That cash might (and can) be going in the direction of my additional sizzling lattes.” Ice-T stated one thing comparable this week … vowing to go blue check-less if push involves shove. As we reported … LeBron James promised one thing comparable.

Lots of stars appear to be prepared to lose their verification if it means they gotta pay, however as of now — nearly everybody nonetheless has their checks … so possibly that is an April Fools’ joke?

Most likely not. Only a couple days in the past, Elon was pointing people within the path of Twitter’s Verified Organizations system — which appears geared towards ensuring firms, information orgs and different notable entities proceed to remain verified on Twitter … sans impersonation.

Everybody else, although — together with particular person journos, and many others. — may need to shell out if they need their blue checks. It is certain to be a s***present for a bit … we’ll see the place the chips land.