Elon Musk says Twitter will re-launch its verification program next week

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Elon Musk says Twitter will re-launch its verification program next week
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Elon Musk says he plans to re-roll out Twitter's new paid verification system next week — a second attempt after the first catastrophically backfired with users successfully impersonating major companies and celebrities.

Elon Musk says the company is ready to re-launch a verification program designed to ease the app's financial reliance on advertisers, but has yet to provide details.paid verification system for Twitter.

This will be his second attempt at launching a paid verification system. His first attempt earlier this month failed, including Lebron James, Former President George W. Bush and Musk himself. But he has yet to explain how the manual verification will work, or whether it might delay the verification process, especiallyVerification practices for social media platforms require a"robust, nimble and large team to well at scale," says"With a reduced workforce, it remains to be seen if it will be possible to prevent fraud, impersonation and scams with their new identity verification...

He also wrote that"individuals can have [a] secondary tiny logo showing they belong to an org if verified as such by that org," promising more details next week.

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