Twitter will tentatively roll out its revamped blue-tick verification badges on Friday next week, new chief Elon Musk has confirmed. He also detailed how different-coloured ticks will be now introduced to denote different types of accounts.
After his hostile $44-billion takeover of Twitter, Musk sought to bring in several changes to the microblogging platform. This includes the monetisation of Twitter’s ‘verified’ blue-tick badge, which has been brought under the Twitter Blue subscription plan, priced at $8 per month for those who wish to avail of it.
On Thursday, Former US Secretary of Labor Robert Reich tweeted against Musk’s call to lay off more than half of Twitter employees, saying, “When he fired half of Twitter’s workforce and drove off even more, he wasn’t “cutting costs.” He was actively destroying what he bought.” To this, Musk replied on Friday, “Interesting … now pay $8”.
Now, to this reply, user Crypto King replied, “Elon, I’m trying. It won’t let me and I’m Verified (need to edit 1 character I can’t spell)”.
Musk promptly replied to this query, saying that there has been a delay in the rollout of Twitter’s “Verification” and that it will be rolled out on “Friday next week.”
The CEO also said that Twitter will roll out different coloured ticks to denote the different types of accounts — gold check for companies, grey for government, and blue for individuals. He also added that all verified accounts will be “manually authenticated before check activates”.
