Twitter is popping the famous blue checkmark into a logo indicating you paid $8 to Elon Musk, which identifies a handful of public figures. But ultimately, if anyone can be verified with an extra $8 and a delicate ego, the image is rendered meaningless, paving the best way for trolls to tire of impersonation gags. Tesla and SpaceX CEOs felt it themselves first handThat’s why Twitter is introducing an “official” badge, which is a different type of in-person verification than the blue test.
“Not all previously verified accounts will receive the ‘Official’ label and the label is not available for purchase,” Explained Product Supervisor Esther Crawford said in a tweet. “Accounts receiving it include government accounts, commercial companies, business partners, major media outlets, publishers and certain public figures.”
The official badge looks like it’s mainly supposed to represent what the blue checks indicate…. Which shouldn’t be complicating in any way for the more than 200 million creatures of behavior who log on to the Chicken app every day.
“The new Twitter Blue does not include ID verification – it is an opt-in, paid subscription that provides blue checkmarks and access to select features,” Crawford Continuous In a Twitter thread. “We will continue to experiment with ways to differentiate between account types.”
App researcher Neema Ovji spotty The task is in short increments over the past week as Twitter employees rush to meet expedited deadlines.
Twitter initially planned to roll out its new system, through which anyone should buy the Blue Test on Monday. But the roll out was delayed until after Tuesday’s US midterm election in an attempt to curb abuse. transfer was Allegedly geared toward limiting the potential repercussions of verified customers impersonating political figures or news retailers claiming false results that would discourage others from voting.
This “official” designation will try to keep this sort of deliberate misinformation from spreading, but it’s a tall question to train a couple of new functions to the more than 200 million customers each day that are essentially built on a single platform. News can change the best way to set up and consume. that they had been using for over a decade. Still, Twitter’s head of security and integrity, Joel Roth, claimed that Twitter’s “core moderation capabilities remain in place” regardless of corporate mass layoffs.
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