More Scott Olson/Getty Images. ... Musk's proposed change required users to pay for Twitter Blue to keep their check mark and allowed anyone to get the symbol simply by paying.

Twitter recently announced that any account that didn’t subscribe to Twitter Blue for $8 per month would lose its check mark in April, but most non-paying users still have their check marks.

However, subscribers won’t automatically get the blue check-mark. That will occur only “after your account has been reviewed,” Twitter said in announcing the service relaunch Saturday.

The shifts to the check mark program are part of the moves being made by Elon Musk, who bought Twitter in October for $44 billion. Last year, he said that Twitter would begin removing verification ...

The blue check mark on Twitter has long conferred a special status. Only certain accounts — typically those of public figures whose identities were confirmed — have been bestowed the symbol.

As Elon Musk promised, Twitter‘s previous blue check-mark verification regime will soon be history.. The social network, which the mega-billionaire bought last year in a debt-heavy $44 billion ...