Paul Krugman gets his blue tick back on Twitter without subscribing. Here's why...

Paul Krugman tweeted that he had nothing to do with the reappearance of his blue tick on Twitter. (File photo).

Nobel prize winning economist Paul Krugman posted on Twitter, stating that the blue tick was back on his Twitter account, but he had nothing to do with it and nor was he taking up a paid subscription.

"So my blue check has reappeared. I had nothing to do with that, and am definitely not paying," he wrote on his page.

So my blue check has reappeared. I had nothing to do with that, and am definitely not paying

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— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) April 23, 2023

Twitter has mass verified all users with over 1 million followers for free.

— Cyprian, Is Nyakundi (@C_NyaKundiH) April 23, 2023

On Thursday, Twitter had started to remove the legacy blue checkmarks from several accounts, ranging from government, celebrities, business leaders, and politicians.

Few eminent Indian personalities who lost their blue checkmarks included hah Shah Rukh Khan, Salman Khan, Deepika Padukone, Amitabh Bachchan and Alia Bhatt.

Twitter was bought by Elon Musk in October 2022 for a sum of $44 billion.  He had stated that the manner in which the blue checkmarks has been given out were "corrupt and nonsensical" and termed the verification system as a "lords & peasants system".

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