Elon Musk finally revealed his plans for Twitter Verified accounts Friday, or at least the key outlines of a new three-color system of check marks that will launch in one week: Gold for companies, gray for government and blue for individuals.
Musk will demand $8 for the privilege. That’s what he’s been strongly leaning toward – but he didn’t say in the Friday reveal whether check marks would require immediate payment or subscription. They could be delayed. “activate” They must be manually confirmed “Painful, but necessary,” He stated.
Musk kept the details a secret in an a Thread for tweet-reply Robert Reich was the original founder of Twitter. His credentials as both a Berkeley professor, and Secretary for Labor under Bill Clinton should be enough to show what his opinion is of the new CEO. Reich attacked Musk via Twitter. Musk demanded $8 of Reich in his signature troll move. And out of nowhere, an account goes by Crypto King I intervened to ask about the problem with his editing function.
Elon replied to Crypto King “Sorry for the delay, we’re tentatively launching Verified on Friday next week. Gold check for companies, grey check for government, blue for individuals (celebrity or not) and all verified accounts will be manually authenticated before check activates. Painful, but necessary.”
Musk has made known his distaste for the old Twitter’s verification system, with check marks given out to celebrities, “notable” The platform is open to all, including friends and family members.
“All verified individual humans will have same blue check, as boundary of what constitutes ‘notable’ is otherwise too subjective. Individuals can have secondary tiny logo showing they belong to an org if verified as such by that org. Longer explanation next week.”
Sounds like more details will come after the holiday weekend, meaning it won’t be much of a holiday weekend for Twitter’s remaining corps of backend engineers and designers. Musk also reiterated his firm opposition to impersonation in the thread.
“Deliberate impersonation/deception will result in account suspension,” He tweet. “Organizational affiliation, bio and follower count distinguish between people who genuinely have the exact same name. We shall see how it goes.”
