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Four and a half months after Paid Checkmark’s chaotic rollout, Elon Musk’s Twitter is executing a plan to remove verification from personal accounts that don’t pay $8 a month for Twitter Blue subscriptions.
“As of April 1st, accounts that have exited the Legacy Verification Program and have been verified by the previous criteria (Active, Featured, Genuine) will not retain the blue check mark unless they are enrolled in Twitter Blue.” FAQ Say. Twitter has also stopped accepting verification checkmark submissions under the old standard.
“To maintain a blue check mark on Twitter, individuals should sign up for Twitter Blue. here,” twitter Said yesterday. “Organizations can sign up for verified organizations here.”
This change means that many accounts deemed notable by Twitter before Musk acquired the company will no longer be verified. As we have already mentioned, even if the scammer did not purchase a blue check, it may be easier for the scammer to impersonate a real person. After a verified person loses the checkmark, a scammer can pretend to be that person and there is no verified account to prove the scammer is fake.
Twitter too announced yesterday “We are accepting gray checkmark applications for eligible government and multilateral accounts,” it said. Twitter currently has several Check marks of different colors Indicates the account type.
Musk reportedly ignored warnings about scammers
When paid checkmarks were first introduced in November, Musk reportedly ignored an internal warning from Twitter’s Trust and Safety team that fraudsters were abusing paid authentication. Paid Checkmark ignited a wave of fake accounts, and Musk just said he temporarily suspended paid verification schemes after two days. “Fundamentally, deceiving people is bad,” Musk warned Twitter users at the time.
Musk relaunched paid Checkmarks in December, but didn’t say when Twitter would go ahead with its original plan to remove Checkmarks from what it now calls “legacy verified” accounts. The updated version of Twitter Blue has some rules to limit abuse of paid checkmarks. For example, “account must be at least 90 days old with a subscription and have a verified phone number” or “no recent changes to profile picture”. Display name, or username. “
Meanwhile, Twitter announced Yesterday, Twitter Blue became available worldwide. “Sign up now to get blue checkmarks, conversation priority ranking, half ads, long tweets, bookmark folders, custom navigation, tweet editing, tweet undo and more,” he said in a Twitter statement. said.
However, as The Verge pointed out, the priority ranking feature and the perk of seeing 50% fewer ads are not yet available. These two perks are listed as “coming soon” when you click the link to sign up for Twitter Blue.
