Twitter terminating free blue test verification system

Twitter announced on Thursday the corporate is terminating its free blue verification test system beginning subsequent month.

"On April 1st, we are going to start winding down our legacy verified program and eradicating legacy verified checkmarks," Twitter tweeted.

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The free blue checks have been historically awarded to verified accounts belonging to figures of public curiosity, together with officers, journalists, and celebrities, per their request.

Beginning subsequent week, checks might be made accessible by the subscription service Twitter Blue.

The associated fee for the subscription service is $8 per 30 days, and it's meant as each a device to spice up the corporate's income and stymie bots and trolls, the report famous.

Accounts can even be capable to undo and edit tweets by Twitter Blue, which was relaunched in December following preliminary issues concerning impersonators.

One other distinction might be that Twitter Blue is not going to require account holders to be notable to obtain a blue test.

The one situations for the service are that the account should be nondeceptive, older than 90 days, and energetic.

"Any particular person individual’s Twitter account affiliated with a verified group is routinely verified," Musk tweeted Friday.

Totally different shade checks can even be assigned for various accounts.

Particular person customers will obtain blue checks, corporations and types will obtain gold checks, and authorities accounts will obtain grey checks.