Twitter will take away all legacy blue checkmarks “in a couple of months,” in response to a tweet from CEO Elon Musk.
“The best way wherein they got out was corrupt and nonsensical,” tweeted Musk.
Earlier than Musk purchased Twitter, checkmarks had been used to confirm people and entities as lively, genuine and notable accounts of curiosity. On Monday, the social media platform relaunched its Twitter Blue subscription plan after a dicey first attempt. The subscription provides anybody prepared to shell out $8 monthly (or $11 monthly on iOS as a result of screw you, App Store) a blue checkmark subsequent to their identify, fewer adverts on their timeline, boosted posts and different options.
This previous week, many blue checkmark holders have been seeing a pop-up after they click on on their blue checkmark that reads, “This can be a legacy verified account. It may or may not be notable.”
Twitter remains to be figuring out the kinks of this controversial income stream. The corporate additionally simply up to date its phrases to specify that customers shall be required to verify phone numbers earlier than buying Twitter Blue. Customers additionally gained’t be capable to change their username, show identify or profile image seven days prior to purchasing the plan.
Twitter has additionally warned that if already paying subscribers do change any of these identifiers, their blue examine would possibly disappear till Twitter can re-verify them. That extra-cautious transfer appears because of the initial rollout of Twitter Blue, which resulted in rampant, and often hilarious, account impersonations.
