Elon Musk has announced in a tweet that next Friday December 2 will reactivate the account verifications. They will be done as before, manually and individually. It also announces the gold and gray check. What are they for?
After the chaotic implementation of the account verifications by paid subscriptionElon Musk has had to give in to return to the old, but only reliable method of certifying accounts: one by one, and manually.
Elon Musk did not listen to common sense, nor to his employees, who told him that he was crazy give account verification without verifying identity. For $8 thousands of “verified” accounts sprang up impersonating famous brands, to make jokes… Or send stocks plummeting, as happened to an impersonated pharmaceutical company, which advertised free insulin.
This absurd system invented by Musk had to shut down right away, even though the damage had already been done. Now the owner of Twitter announces that account verification will return on December 2. It will be a manual verification “painful but unavoidable“. Something that everyone knew except him, apparently:
Sorry for the delay, we’re tentatively launching Verified on Friday next week. Gold check for companies, gray check for government, blue for individuals (celebrity or not) and all verified accounts will be manually authenticated before check activates. Painful, but necessary.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 25, 2022
in the same tweet Elon Musk also announces that there will be two new colors of check: Prayed Y Gray. Shouldn’t it be gold and silver? The brand Prayed is for Businessand the Gray for governments. The blue mark will continue to be for individual users.
Musk has also been asked if there will be a distinctive mark for celebrities. And the answer is no. He argues that the term famous, or “notable,” is highly subjective. Here he is right…
But it will lose an important feature, and that is that the blue check mark It was for important people and gave prestige to the accounts. Now the prestigious people they will not differentiate themselves from bots or trolls. Many will not like it…
Elon Musk has also announced today general amnesty for everyone banned from twitterexcept “those who have committed crimes, or spam“, because this has been decided by a survey he has done on Twitter. A survey in which the bots he repudiated when he tried to get a discount on the purchase of the social network voted.
That’s how it is Elon Musk. You love it or you hate it. At least it’s good to know that you’ve come to your senses on the subject of account verificationsand the implementation of the new gold and gray checks.