As Elon Musk promised, Twitter’s previous blue check-mark verification regime will soon be history.
Twitter first introduced verified accounts in 2009 to help users identify that celebrities, politicians, companies and brands, news organizations and other accounts “of public interest” were genuine and not impostor or parody accounts. The company didn’t previously charge for verification.
Musk opined that Twitter’s old system of verification was “corrupt” and opened up blue check-marks to any paying customer — a move to democratize the status symbol, perhaps, but also a means for Musk to generate a much-needed new revenue stream. “Far too many corrupt legacy Blue ‘verification’ checkmarks exist, so no choice but to remove legacy Blue in coming months,”Prior to Musk’s change allowing anyone to get a blue check-mark, Twitter had more than 420,000 verified accounts.
In November, two weeks after Musk closed the Twitter deal, the company launched Twitter Blue with the check-mark badge as one of the premium perks. But after two days, it suspended signups when a deluge of users set up fake and parody accounts that appeared to be “verified.” The companyIn Musk’s first companywide memo to Twitter staffers last fall, he said the company would need roughly half its revenue to come from subscription services.
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