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# blue ticks

Last year
2023
Twitter's famous blue ticks start vanishing across the platform
All time
Twitter strips verified status from Richard Spencer and others after new rules against hate
You can read your WhatsApp messages on the sly without other people knowing
You can read your WhatsApp messages on the sly without other people knowing
People are FREAKING OUT about WhatsApp's new 'read' function