Billionaire Elon Musk has announced that he has hired a new Twitter CEO as his job title changes. Image: Twitter/@elonmusk
Twitter reinstates blue checkmarks for high profiled accounts
Twitter has restored the verification checkmarks for many high profiled users after it decided to scrap them off over the past weekend.
Billionaire Elon Musk has announced that he has hired a new Twitter CEO as his job title changes. Image: Twitter/@elonmusk
Twitter re-verified many users with massive followings over the weekend, just days after purging the site’s famed blue verification check marks from accounts that don’t pay for Twitter Blue.
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This led to some celebrities and journalists – and major public institutions opting not to sign up to the new Twitter Blue’s R200-per-month subscription service.
Many celebrities posted that they never signed up for the new subscription even though their verification status was restored.
Elon Musk has said he is personally paying for the verification status of some celebrities and high-profile figures, including Stephen King, LeBron James and William Schatner.
Living celebrities aren’t the only ones whose verification status has returned. Some legacy accounts of deceased high profiles have been restored verification.
Many high-profile entities on the social media platform are left unverified, and with the ability to be verified is available for purchase on subscription.
When Elon Musk first started offering blue check marks to Twitter Blue subscribers last year, users created fake accounts for high profiled accounts like LeBron James and Donald Trump.
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Launch of new Twitter subscription
Elon Musk launched Twitter Blue last year after buying the social media platform for R800 billion.
He then introduced the R200 monthly charge for the blue tick as well as a number of other features.
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Accounts with checkmarks that pre-dated Musk’s takeover, known as “legacy accounts”, were given the option to pay for the subscription.
This follows the rollout or risk of losing their checkmark, which was originally introduced to prevent the impersonation of public figures on Twitter.
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