Twitter first introduced the blue account verification flag in 2009, which indicates that accounts with this mark have been verified as trustworthy, meaning that the account is owned by the person or brand it represents and lets users know that they have accounts to follow. real and not an impersonation. or account. fake account.
But after Elon Musk bought Twitter last year, Document Markup caught everyone's attention when Musk decided to offer it as a paid service called (Twitter Blue), available to anyone willing to pay a monthly subscription.
Starting today, Saturday, April 1, 2023, in accordance with the changes made by Musk, the old free endorsement tags will be removed from the accounts of people who are not subscribed to the Twitter Blue service, allowing anyone who wants to keep the endorsement tags, must subscribe to the Twitter Blue service in their accounts, which costs $8 per month.
What happens to your verified account if you don't sign up for Twitter Blue?
Upgrade to Twitter Blue to get more Tweets in replies, mentions, and search results for the accounts you follow.
repeatedly because you no longer recommend content from unverified accounts, Musk tweeted on Monday.
Twitter's For You feature displays a non-chronological feed designed to show the most popular and engaged content based on users' interests. So if you are not a Twitter Blue subscriber; Your content will not be shown to people who don't follow you then this will have a huge impact on how the platform works and will change the mechanics of the recent news display feature based on popularity and vitality - this is useful for a content creator to get a large number of followers - Pay -per view.
Additionally, voting in Twitter polls will be limited to verified accounts only.
Musk sees the move as the only realistic solution to the problem of advanced bots sweeping across the platform, though he has yet to provide evidence of the scale of their impact on the platform.
Starting April 15th, only verified accounts will be eligible to be in For You recommendations.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 27, 2023
The is the only realistic way to address advanced AI bot swarms taking over. It is otherwise a hopeless losing battle.
Voting in polls will require verification for same reason.
Will people sign up for Twitter Blue to get a verification code?
It all depends on whether the account holder is required to keep a verification code, and it is expected that some stars and organizations will choose not to pay; Since they already have a large number of followers, they will continue to see their posts.
And the day has already begun, some major international media outlets have announced their refusal to pay the costs of maintaining accreditation marks on their accounts and the accounts of their journalists. The ruling came hours before Twitter began implementing the ruling today.
The New York Times, which has multiple accounts and about 55 million followers on Twitter, said it will not sign up for a paid service (Twitter Blue) to verify its accounts and will not pay or verify individual journalists' Twitter accounts. Twitter, except in verified cases. The account is required to report an event.
La Poste also confirmed that it would not pay for the service on behalf of the newspaper or its publisher, because the certification mark does not mean more expertise and professionalism.
Other news organizations have taken the same stance, including the Los Angeles Times, Politico, and Vox Media Group.
Vox Media also rejects the notion of paying for a checkmark on Twitter, per spox: "While Vox Media will take advantage of legacy account verification when provided to our brand accounts, it will generally not pay for employees to keep or gain Twitter verification."
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) March 30, 2023
But some small businesses that use Twitter to market their services and want their content to reach a wider audience may choose to pay for a verification code.