Elon Musk says he already 'killed' Twitter’s new double-check verification
Twitter’s new double-check verification disappears, Elon Musk says he ‘killed it’Twitter’s new “Official” gray checks were live for only a few hours before disappearing this morning. A product lead at the company said the new labels will still be part of the Twitter Blue launch.on Twitter, the gray badges disappeared this morning, just a few hours after they were first spotted.Twitter’s billionaire owner Elon Musk, responding to a tweet about the gray check disappearing.
Yesterday, it was announced that an additional gray check would instead designate authentic high-profile accounts. Politicians, news outlets , celebrities, and brand accounts were briefly double-verified this morning. Twitter staff have been working on pushing out the new version of Twitter Blue around the clock, even posting aboutto get the job done. Esther Crawford, who’s leading the Twitter Blue overhaul, tweeted that the “Official” label will still be part of the Twitter Blue rollout but limited to “government and commercial entities” at first, not individual users. The rapidly changing environment and priorities at the company speak to what we can likely expect with Musk at the helm.
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