Elon Musk’s firm reverses policy of insisting on payment for ‘verified status’ – embarrassing some beneficiaries
The blue tick is now being applied to users with more than 2,500 ‘verified subscriber follows’ as well as those who have paid for it.The blue tick is now being applied to users with more than 2,500 ‘verified subscriber follows’ as well as those who have paid for it.Elon Musk has reversed one of his most notorious decisions since taking over X, the social network better known as Twitter, and started bestowing blue ticks on the site’s most-followed users – whether they want them or not.
The two tiers of paid-for service provide a number of benefits. The cheaper gives users fewer adverts and more prominent placement in the site’s algorithmic curation and the more expensive adds access to X’s “anti-woke” AI chatbot Grok, zero adverts and even greater prioritisation for replies. But both are best known for the public-facing perk of a blue tick next to the user’s profile. That checkmark, still known as “verification” on the site, was once reserved for prominent users who had proved their identity, but was opened up under Musk to any subscriber of the service’s paid-for tier, then known as Twitter Blue.. The hope was that the site’s most prominent and dedicated users would sign up for the paid-for service instead, boosting revenue and the credibility of a premium account.
It isn’t clear how many blue checks have been granted – nor how many were unwanted. As is policy at the social network since Musk took over, X did not respond to a request for comment.Judge dismisses ‘vapid’ Elon Musk lawsuit against group that cataloged racist content on XElon Musk’s X back online after global outageElon Musk says X will reinstate Alex Jones’s account after poll of users
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