It blue tick 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. Rather, whoever owns it paid Blue subscription to Twitter take such a check must earn.
Abusing paid ticks
When it is entered, the status becomes a tick immediately abused: celebrities, politicians and corporations are impersonated on a large scale by people who pay for such endorsement tickets and then change their usernames to resemble those of really famous people or companies.
A subscription to Blue’s Twitter service is next discontinuedbut it’s been since monday Available again for users in the US, Canada, UK, Australia and New Zealand. People who subscribe via the Twitter app on their iPhone or iPad pay morebecause Twitter has to pay Apple a 30 percent commission to do so.
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.
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