Twitter reactivates its gray "Official" badge for select high-profile accounts, after a wave of impersonators bought blue checks (Elizabeth Lopatto/The Verge)

Elizabeth Lopatto / The Verge:
Twitter reactivates its gray “Official” badge for select high-profile accounts, after a wave of impersonators bought blue checks  —  Okay, so Twitter broke its own verification system by making the blue check — previously a signal that the account had provided information …