Twitter has removed the blue check from accounts that don’t pay for a subscription

The social network Twitter is living for these hours moments of revolution after retiring this Thursday blue check marks to the accounts that are not subscribed to Twitter Blue, a subscription that costs $8 per month. The provision modifies the company policy prior Elon Muskwhen Twitter gave this verification for free to public people.

“We will be removing legacy checkmarks,” the verified Twitter account announced in a tweet yesterday. It is made.

Twitter Blue users can edit their tweets, post content up to 10,000 characters, and have the platform’s algorithm boost your tweets.

However, only 0.2% of Web Users Pay for Twitter Blue: Twitter Blue had nearly 116,000 confirmed subscriptions on the Web in March, up 138% from the previous month, according to Similarweb.

This amount of fertilizer does not produce enough income enough to recoup the money the company lost when various companies stopped advertising on Twitter with the arrival of the CEO of Tesla and XSpace.

Musk’s constant bickering and swinging during his first year online prompted advertisers to flee en masse from the social network founded in 2006, causing ad revenue to plunge recently by up to 75%, according to The Washington Post.

Many users and media outlets said they did not want to pay the $8-per-month-per-employee fee and $1,000-per-month for their organizations’ yellow ticks. The New York Times or the actress Halle Berry, who announced yesterday that she will join the “unverified”.

According to Musk, those verification badges were delivered in a way”corrupt and meaningless“, although, in fact, they have been very useful for allowing users to confirm that the personalities – athletes, celebrities, journalists – they interact with are the person they say they are).

So much so that the impact was instantaneous. Thousands of accounts have been affected by this change and thus, for example Maurizio Macri lost the blue tilde. The same as other politicians around the world

As for the official service entities, they too have been affected. Which for some may mean more fertile ground for scams and scams.

The world of sport is another sign that verification is not what it used to be. The clubs Mouth, River and Independent they continued to have golden tilde to be an official #Twitter organization. San Lorenzo and Corsa they lost the scudetto and they are the two big names that no longer have any type of logo anymore.

The date that was chosen for this change made us think at first that it was perhaps a joke, since April 20, written 4/20, in English, is “marijuana day” for many, and that joke l ‘has already used Musk on other occasions.

In 2018 Musk tweeted, “Considering taking Tesla public at $420. Financing secured” and later said it was a joke.

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