Twitter Blue subscription no longer available following rise in fake verified accounts

New York: It appears that Twitter Blue subscription feature has been removed from the platform. Some users have reported on the social media platform that the option to sign up for Twitter Blue is no longer available on the website. Twitter is creating a lot of confusion right now by rolling out different features every day and then removing them.

The subscription was launched earlier this month and the platform released it only for iOS users. Android users are yet to get it.

The sudden disappearance of the new, USD 7.99 Twitter Blue, launched earlier this week, comes after several users bought the verification to impersonate brands and celebrities.

As soon as the paid verification feature rolled out, many fake accounts of famous personalities like former US President Donal Trump surfaced on the application. Some verified accounts even impersonated the gaming character ‘Super Mario’ and Lakers player LeBron James.

Taking the matter into his hands Elon Musk tweeted that any account trying to impersonate someone else would be disabled unless they declare it’s a parody account.

Twitter even launched a new verification badge, a grey tick designating accounts as “official,” in an effort to counteract the rise in fake accounts. Within a few days, the company introduced this feature and then withdrew it before reintroducing it again.

Meanwhile, this Twitter Blue subscription unavailability could also be an error of some type or a temporary pullback while Twitter sorts out its issues. However, this is all just another example of how chaotic things are at Twitter following its acquisition by Musk as features are being introduced and then pulled in a matter of days if not hours.