The social network will temporarily delay the marketing of verified accounts.
After Elon Musk bought Twitter for $44 billion, the little blue bird’s social network began to “go through” – literally – all sorts of changes.
According to the ridiculously wealthy business tycoon, the changes that will be introduced will Twitter be better than ever. But many of these changes have not gone down well with a large percentage of users, who are considering permanently deleting their Twitter accounts.
One of the most controversial changes on Twitter was the introduction of a system that will allow users to subscribe to a monthly plan to get a verified account with the now traditional blue badge for a cost of 8 dollars.
Twitter’s New iOS Update Doesn’t Include Verified Account Followers
Last weekend, Twitter released a new update to the iOS App Store. Everything indicated that this update would include changes to blue badges, actually included it in the details of its description. But curiously, it was not so. Apparently, Elon Musk will delay subscriptions to verified accounts.
The information comes from the New York Times and indicates that Twitter is planning delay changes until after the next U.S. midterm election resultswhich will take place on Tuesday, November 8.
Elon Musk buys Twitter for $44 billion
Elon Musk’s fear is that a big wave of fake verified accounts who attempt to supplant the identity of politicians and other celebrities.
For this reason, recently the CEO of Tesla and Twitter warned that all users who commit fraud from identity theft in the social network will be permanently banned.
Going forward, all Twitter handles that engage in impersonation without clearly specifying “parody” will be permanently suspended.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 6, 2022
“Going forward, any Twitter posts related to impersonation without clearly specifying ‘parody’ will be permanently suspended.”
Other changes to Twitter include open source algorithm, more freedom of expression, elimination of accounts of robots and an edit button tweet which had been in development for some time.
Drastic measures much needed in a situation like the one in which the social network finds itself. Maybe it’s the Universe itself telling Elon Musk that this change isn’t as big of an idea as he thought. On another side the delay in the launch of this new Twitter subscription plan is more than justified. But what do you think of all this news?
