After suspending Twitter Blue service indefinitely, Elon Musk Twitter has now announced that Twitter will relaunch its ‘Blue Tick’ enabling Twitter Blue service on Friday, December 2, 2022.
The updated service will have unique checkmarks for different entities.
Sorry for the delay, we are tentatively launching Verified on Friday next week. Gold checks for companies, Gray checks for government, Blue checks for individuals (celebrity or not) and all verified accounts will be manually authenticated before the check is activated.
Painful, but necessary.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 25, 2022
“Sorry for the delay, we are tentatively rescheduling Verified Launch for Friday next week,” Elon said in a tweet. Will be manually authenticated before the check is activated.”
Musk deemed the change “painful but necessary”.
Earlier this month, Musk faced criticism for allowing companies, individuals and other entities to be impersonated by fake accounts on Twitter. Elon Musk has put an $8 price tag on a subscription to Twitter Blue, and according to a recent tweet, the price will remain $8 when the service relaunches in December.
Elon previously tweeted that Twitter Blue would be postponed “until there is higher confidence in preventing impersonation.” Several fake verified accounts used Twitter Blue to verify and impersonate companies and individuals known to have committed fraud.
Several bogus verified Twitter Blue accounts wreaked havoc on Twitter. A user, mimicking the drug company Eli Lilly, tweeted that the drug company would provide free insulin to its customers, sending the company’s stock down 5% in morning trading on Friday.
We apologize to those who have been misled by the fake Lily account. Our official Twitter account is @lily pad— Eli Lilly & Company (@LillyPad) November 10, 2022
Later, a fake Nintendo account posted an illustration of Mario giving the middle finger.
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