Elon Musk claims that Twitter can use different color checks for organizations and individuals.
Twitter CEO Elon Musk on Tuesday announced that he will pause the Verified Blue relaunch until there is high confidence in preventing impersonation. He made the announcement via a tweet.
Elon Musk claims that Twitter can use different color checks for organizations and individuals. On his official Twitter page, Musk said: “Stop relaunching Blue Verified until there is high certainty about preventing impersonation. May use a different color check for organizations. compared to the individual.”
After taking over the microblogging site, Musk announced the possibility that users could purchase a verified blue tick through Twitter Blue. Despite receiving internal warnings from Twitter’s own trust and safety staff, Musk’s plan led to the impersonation of well-known accounts, including Twitter’s advertisers, The Verge news.
After Musk took over Twitter, the microblogging site added and removed separate, gray checkmarks on popular accounts without explaining why.
On Monday, Elon Musk told Twitter employees that the company would not relaunch paid verification subscriptions, Twitter Blue until they were “convinced that significant impersonations will not occur.” out,” The Verge quoted a transcript of his remarks.
Last week, Elon Musk said that his $8 per month Blue subscription will be made available on November 29th, however, during a meeting with employees, he confirmed that the timing of Blue’s launch has already passed. verified as dubious, as reported by The Verge.
During a meeting with Twitter employees, Elon Musk said: “We may launch it next week. Maybe not. But we won’t launch until there is high confidence in anti-virus protection. those important impersonations,” The Verge reported.
Elon Musk in a meeting with Twitter employees on Monday said that the company “probably” will need to “check out a different color” for “organizations and companies”. However, he did not provide further details regarding the plan.
Musk emphasized that any social media platform according to him “will be vulnerable to bots and trolls” until a payment is made to increase “the cost of bots and trolls significantly.” “
Meanwhile, Elon Musk in a tweet on November 22 claimed that Twitter added 1.6 million daily active users in the past week and called it an all-time high. Musk tweeted, “Twitter added 1.6 million daily active users in the past week, another all-time high.”
