Blue no longer means "verified." It now means "X Premium Subscriber." Features listed here[0]. The Gold/Grey checkmark is now the old Blue "Verified" checkmark

Blue no longer means "verified." It now means "X Premium Subscriber." Features listed here[0]. The Gold/Grey checkmark is now the old Blue "Verified" checkmark (Gold for orgs and Grey for Government/Elected Officials). In essence they redefined "Blue checkmark" from notable person/org to "gives us money" and then directly replaced it with something else. [0] https://help.twitter.com/en/using-x/x-premium https://help.twitter.com/en/using-x/x-premium