Elon Musk has axed thousands of jobs at Twitter.
Elon Musk tweeted Friday that legacy Twitter Blue would soon be sunset.
  • Elon Musk tweeted Friday that legacy Twitter Blue, which he calls Blue Verified, will soon be sunset.
  • Since Musk took over Twitter, he has allowed paying subscribers to receive blue checks.
  • Until now, the platform allowed people with "free" blue checks under Twitter's old verification system to keep them.

In a few months it might be even harder to tell which Twitter accounts are authentic and which ones are not. 

On Friday, Elon Musk tweeted that the legacy version of Twitter's verification system was "deeply corrupted" and would be sunset in a few months.