Elon Musk has said that starting April 15, Twitter will only show tweets from verified users on its For You page.
The decision comes after the company announced it would “scale back” its legacy verified program and remove legacy checkmarks by April 1. The currently controversial blue checkmark is only available to Twitter Blue subscribers who pay $8 a month.
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of the app feed for you(opens in new tab) is now the default view, and only people who have subscribed to Twitter Blue will have the privilege to see it here going forward. In another arbitrary ruling, Musk said only verified accounts could participate in voting.
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These are the latest Twitter features that were previously free for all users and restricted to Twitter Blue subscribers only. Musk describes these decisions as “the only realistic way to deal with swarms of advanced AI bots.”
Since Musk took over as CEO, Twitter has seen a wave of changes, updates, and bugs.We haven’t seen the upcoming legacy checkmark removal and its impact yet, but it could undermine credibility and exacerbate misinformation(opens in new tab).
