“I don’t care what you do with the blue check mark, as long as you vote for blue,” writes the author, who also has a blue check mark behind his name on Twitter. Blue is the color of the Democrats in the US, red the color of the Republicans.
The new owner of Twitter, Elon Musk, recently suggested that well-known people and institutions on the social medium should start paying for the blue tick that can be seen on their profile. The blue checkmark verifies the accounts of famous people and distinguishes them from fake accounts.