X is giving blue checks to influential users (which is what blue checks were supposed to be all along)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/03/x-blue-check-influential-users-twitter/
X is giving free blue checks to users who have more than 2500 “verified” followers (or, people that subscribe to X Premium). So, basically this means that if you are a popular poster, you will get a blue check. This also means that these lucky people are frantically posting to make it clear that they didn’t buy a blue check — the blue check was foisted upon them.
“Some personal news: I’m now a serial small business founder in Arizona who posts about fatherhood, faith and what it takes to get a roofing company to $100 million ARR,” a newly minted blue check, Tom Gara, posted.
