Twitter drops verification for free accounts: you’ll have to pay for the blue check

Twitter has announced it will roll out its paid verification program to everyone and remove those blue badges from accounts.inheritance”, or those who had obtained them before the platform issued them by subscription. it will be in april.

AS, to keep the verification it will be mandatory to pay otherwise all Legacy accounts will remain without the blue check mark. This is a problem since the verification serves to know if an account legitimately belongs to the person who carries it, in addition to the fact that, according to experts, it influences the visibility of tweets.

The announcement is not necessarily a surprise, since Elon Musk, CEO of the company, had promised to eliminate these verifications which were granted under Twitter’s previous rulessince November, and has reiterated several times that they would disappear “in the coming months”.

According to Musk, those verification badges have sort of been delivered “corrupt and senseless”although, in fact, they’re useful enough for users to confirm that the personalities — athletes, celebrities, journalists — they interact with are who they say they are).

However, it’s also hard to ignore that the April 1 is April Fool’s Day in the Anglo-Saxon world.which does not attract attention considering that Musk has a “troll” personality on the social network.

“It is entirely possible that this announcement, coming from the verified Twitter account and not from Musk’s account, is just an attempt to scare people with previous signs of verification. It’s a meme at this point that members of the press are overrepresented in the pool of verified legacy users, and these days Musk is clearly not a fan of the media,” reported The Verge.

promise or reality

However, it’s also possible that Twitter actually intended to do this and the date was simply chosen as a reference. Also, a banner announcing the change appeared at the top of the timeline on some users, so maybe it really happened.

However. even if the date is serious, Musk’s Twitter has made many promises about the future of the service that have not been kept.

For example, Musk announced a revenue-sharing program in February, and his tweets are still the only thing we hear about. Musk has also promised to open the source code of “all the code used to recommend tweetson March 31, after missing the first self-imposed deadline to do so.

“However, he kept his promise to have Twitter’s press email answer questions with a poop emoji, which he did when we sent out a comment request for this story,” she explained. The Verge.

Twitter maintains the separate request process for the gray checkmarks for government agencies/officials and the gold checkmarks for companies (which, in the future, will they will also have a separate cost).