Twitter users who have spent years generating their audience and achieved the long-awaited verification of their account by the platform, will now have to open their wallet if they want to keep that badge.

Verification on Twitter, so far, is granted to public figures, institutions, companies or those who have a good number of followers and are socially relevant.
And there is no cost.

But according to a recent report, now that Elon Musk is its owner, the whole verification process will be renewed and, what is worse, those who already have it will have to pay 20 USD per month if they want to keep it.