Twitter will revise its user verification process, Elon Musk said in a tweet on Sunday, just days after he took over one of the world’s most influential social media platforms.
\n\u201cWhole verification process is being revamped right now,\u201d Musk said in his tweet without giving more details.
\nTwitter is considering charging for the coveted blue check mark verifying the identity of its account holder, technology newsletter Platformer reported on Sunday, citing two people familiar with the matter.
\nUsers would have to subscribe to Twitter Blue at $4.99 a month or lose their \u201cverified\u201d badges if the project moves forward, according to the report.
\nThe CEO of Tesla Inc has not made a final decision and the project could still be scrapped but according to Platformer it is likely that verification will become a part of Twitter Blue.
\nSeparately, The Verge reported on Sunday that Twitter will increase the subscription price for Twitter Blue, which also verifies users, from $4.99 a month to $19.99 a month, citing internal correspondence seen by them.
\nTwitter Blue was launched in June last year as the platform’s first subscription service, which offers \u201cexclusive access to premium features\u201d on a monthly subscription basis including an option to edit tweets.
\nThe feature to edit tweets was also made available earlier this month after Musk launched a Twitter poll in April asking his millions of followers whether they wanted an edit button. Over 70 per cent had said yes.
\nMusk has also requested that logged-out users visiting Twitter’s site be redirected to Explore page which shows trending tweets, according to a separate Verge report on Sunday citing employees who were familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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