New Twitter Verification Policy: Payment Required
On April 20, all legacy account verifications will be removed from Twitter, after CEO Elon Musk decides to make verifications only possible through subscribing.
After Elon Musk purchased Twitter, the app’s landscape has been changing drastically every day. In just a few days from now, the company will be putting yet another change into action: removing all legacy verifications.
Instead of celebrities or government officials having their accounts verified based on their well-known status, a paid subscription will now be required for anyone who wants a checkmark next to their name.
Final date for removing legacy Blue checks is 4/20
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 11, 2023
Another recent initiative from Twitter includes separate “Following” and “For You” tabs on your feed. At first, any account was free to pop up in the “For You” section, including accounts you already follow.
Now, the new verification system will affect this. Starting on April 15, “For You” will only show tweets from verified accounts. In addition, only verified accounts will be able to vote in Twitter polls.
Musk has intentions to clear Twitter of impersonators, and bots, and is seemingly hoping to achieve this through the website’s new changes. But the new verification system only relies on payment, without any requirement to prove identification. It looks like this move will only make it easier for fake accounts to swarm the social media platform.
At the moment, Twitter doesn’t allow users to distinguish whether an account’s blue check is a legacy or subscription-based verification.
Twitter updated their wording so that users are unable to distinguish between paid or legacy verification pic.twitter.com/VoJ1Monvie
— Dexerto (@Dexerto) April 2, 2023
Twitter’s new verification protocols are appealing to various users willing to pay the price. On the other hand, many people are not fans of the mechanics behind this system.
So all joking aside I cancelled my twitter blue subscription when it became apparent that Twitter would invalidate the verification system.
— NoThankYouPlease (@erindorgs) April 3, 2023
We can already see the ways that subscription verifications are shifting how Twitter users interact with the app, and removing legacy verifications entirely will only change things more.
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