Since Elon Musk joined Twitter, one of the measures he intends to implement on the platform will be easy access to a verification system, whereby any user can be verified — as long as they buy Twitter Blue.
This was achieved, and for better or worse, the platform is now preparing to remove old verified tags, for accounts that don’t have Twitter Blue. The idea would be to get users to buy Twitter Blue to keep verified — or in the case of companies, to get the new Gold Signal verification system, at sky-high prices.
However, according to the latest information, it seems that the vast majority of the most important users on the platform, even news sources and accounts important to Twitter, are not interested in obtaining such verification.
Oliver Darcy, a CNN journalist, says that a large number of news organizations are not interested in getting verified, either for their own accounts directly or for reporters. one of Examples The New York Times discovers that Darcy is not looking to buy verification from her accounts.
This applies to both entity accounts, at the corporate level, and journalists’ accounts – apart from some cases where this is strictly necessary for the security or operation of activities.
Other entities have the same idea, as they consider that Twitter Blue no longer provides authenticity intended for this type of account and, therefore, subscribing to it becomes irrelevant. In the end, a checkmark only indicates that users are paying for the service, not that they are entities recognized as trustworthy or of public interest, excluding one of the benefits of doing so.
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