Elon Musk Twitter account displayed on a telephone display screen and Twitter brand displayed on a display screen within the background are seen on this illustration picture taken in Krakow, Poland on November 22, 2022.
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Elon Musk mentioned in a tweet Friday that Twitter would launch its delayed “Verified” service subsequent week with totally different coloured checks relying on the kind of account.
The Twitter CEO mentioned there can be a “gold verify” for corporations, a gray coloured one for presidency accounts and the present blue one for people, whether or not they’re celebrities or not.
All verified accounts might be “manually authenticated” earlier than the verify is activated, Musk mentioned.
The billionaire referred to as the transfer “Painful, however crucial”
Musk’s feedback come after he was pressured to pause the $8 per 30 days Twitter Blue service, which allowed anybody to pay the subscription for the blue verification tick, after customers abused the system by impersonating manufacturers and well-known individuals.
The CEO mentioned Monday that Twitter would delay the relaunch of its $8 per 30 days Blue Verified service. On the time, Musk mentioned Twitter will “in all probability use [a] totally different shade verify for organizations than people.”
Now he has given particulars on what that might appear like.
Musk had earlier mentioned he deliberate to relaunch Twitter Blue on Nov. 29. Musk’s newest timeline places the relaunch on Dec. 2.
The subscription service is Musk’s try and discover a new income stream at Twitter as a part of the billionaire’s controversial shakeup on the social media agency.
Musk has fired hundreds of workers at Twitter and requested the remaining staff to decide to working “lengthy hours at excessive depth” or go away.
