Most of us will now agree that Twitter is increasingly becoming an unusable app. At this rate, there will be a time when Twitter might lose its value in the market. But, before that happens, we have to witness Twitter CEO Elon Musk take a truckload of bizarre decisions for the platform. According to HuffPost, prolific figures like William Shatner and Monica Lewinsky might be losing their blue check marks soon enough. Well, if they don’t agree to pay for it, that is. Verified accounts like theirs need to pay up to $11 a month to get their verification tick back. Some longtime Twitter users, like the 92-year-old Star Trek legend Shatner, are not thrilled with the idea of paying for Twitter Blue’s premium service.

Musk has made it clear that celebrities, journalists and other notable public figures who were verified for free will have till April 1, 2023, to pay for a Twitter Blue subscription. A possible side-effect is that we can expect to see the rise of a bunch of impersonators buying the tick to fake a celebrity’s profile.

Shatner, a veteran actor at the risk of losing his verification badge, complained to Musk over a tweet and wrote: "I’ve been here for 15 years giving my time & witty thoughts all for bupkis. Now you’re telling me that I have to pay for something you gave me for free?" Musk replied to the actor by explaining that this whole thing about paying for Twitter's premium services is for  "treating everyone equally."

Activist and writer Monica Lewinsky also tweeted a screenshot on Sunday that featured a bunch of people impersonating her and one of them has surely paid for a blue check mark. She also wrote: "In what universe is this fair to people who can suffer consequences for being impersonated? A lie travels halfway around the world before the truth even gets out the door?'

Earlier, former Fifth Harmony member Lauren Jauregui also expressed her displeasure over the Twitter Blue subscription and called Musk's intention "greedy." However, a group of celebrities like Beyoncé, Stephen King, Barack and Michelle Obama, Taylor Swift, Tucker Carlson, Drake and Musk have messages of "it is a legacy verified account. It may or may not be notable" appended to their profile.

Rest assured, netizens had yet another opportunity to troll the introduction of Twitter Blue. Twitter user @Piffy_UwU wrote: "If Twitter blue would prevent me from seeing Elon's horrible memes on my timeline, it might be actually worth the 8$."

We can't guarantee that Musk is going to stop going berserk with his memes, but it appears that he is going to turn Twitter into a mess pretty soon.

After Musk took over Twitter, he has been trying to boost the struggling platform’s revenue by attempting to push people to pay for a premium subscription, but this move has backfired on several instances as imposters of public figures and organizations started popping up more often. We hope for a better future where Twitter is back to its old self and Musk is not taking crazy decisions regarding this community anymore.