Elon Musk says there will be three ‘verified’ Twitter checkmarks: blue, gold, and grey
The Twitter checkmark saga may be nearing its conclusion.Information Guide Nigeria
Elon Musk, the chief executive officer of Twitter, announced on Friday that the firm intends to relaunch its account verification program on Dec. 2. The functionality will go live concurrently with the re-launch of Twitter’s paid membership tier Twitter Blue, which was discontinued last month.
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And just paying $8 for a Twitter Blue membership won’t be enough to get a checkmark. “All verified accounts will be manually authenticated before check activates.”NYSC portal
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“Painful, but necessary,” he wrote.
Musk and Twitter have come full circle with this development. Originally, the blue checkmark on Twitter served as a means of identifying users. Musk rendered it ineffective shortly after assuming control of Twitter by adding it to Twitter Blue. This meant that anyone could purchase a checkmark for $8, and that appears to be exactly what happened, with impersonators spreading phony news and confounding users who no longer had a method that was at least partially trustworthy for determining which accounts were authentic.
Click here for a more comprehensive summary of what occurred next. Musk and Twitter fumbled aimlessly, killing off features and reintroducing them every day, before opting to physically authenticate accounts before granting them checkmarks, which is essentially what Twitter did before Musk arrived.JAMB Result
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