The blue ticks have been shared by Twitter in “corrupt and senseless ways” in recent years, according to Musk. tweeted billionaire tonight. Twitter will now refer to affected profiles as ‘verified old accounts’.

After taking over Twitter for $44 billion, Musk announced that he wanted to remove the blue tick on the then-form. Conversely, anyone who picks up a paid Blue subscription on Twitter should get such a tick.

Abusing paid ticks

When it was introduced, checkmark status was immediately abused: celebrities, politicians and corporations were massively impersonated by people who had paid for such certificates of approval and then changed their usernames to resemble very famous people or companies. .

Blue’s Twitter subscription service was later discontinued, but has been available again since Monday for users in the US, Canada, UK, Australia and New Zealand. People who take subscriptions through the Twitter app on an iPhone or iPad pay more, because Twitter has to pay Apple a 30 percent commission.

Control

Twitter thinks it has a workaround to prevent paid blue tick abuse. Users must provide a phone number and each account is checked by an employee before the check is issued. It then, for example, checks that the account does not impersonate a person or company. Also, accounts must have been active within the last 30 days to be eligible for a Twitter Blue subscription and must be older than 90 days.

In addition, customers temporarily lose ticks if they change their name, username or profile photo. A Twitter employee must then check the account first before the checkmark is reactivated.