Next week, Twitter will start removing the legacy verified marks from user profiles. The company is moving towards a system where only paid subscribers and people who are part of approved organizations have that status.
Since November 2022, Twitter Blue members may also show the blue “verified” checkmark on their profiles. “Legacy verified” accounts on Twitter are those that had already been verified under the prior system. Twitter announced in a tweet on Thursday that the move to eliminate legacy verification will start on April 1.
According to the website, on April 1st, it “will start winding down [its] legacy verified program and removing legacy verified checkmarks.” It was always clear that the company wanted to do this.
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Elon Musk, the CEO of Twitter, stated that “far too many corrupt legacy Blue’verification’ checkmarks exist” and that the business is going to eliminate them in the upcoming months shortly after Twitter Blue was first introduced in November 2022.
The blue verification mark has become a key component of Twitter’s Twitter Blue subscription service, which Musk initially priced at $8 per month and now touts as the best method to use and advance the service. More paying subscribers, according to Musk, would also help to fix Twitter’s bot issue. According to the company, paying Blue users receive greater priority in searches and replies, which helps combat spam and scams. Additionally, they can edit tweets and get receive much fewer ads.
Just as Twitter Blue subscriptions went global, Twitter made a statement regarding legacy verified users. With this rollout, the service will be available to more people than it was previously. Paying subscribers will also receive a blue tick, have access to 4,000-character tweets, be able to edit their tweets, and benefit from better reply rankings.
If the company wants to reach Musk’s objective of having half of its income come from subscriptions, it must increase the availability of Blue. We’ll just have to see whether or not there are enough customers ready to pay the $8 monthly fee (or $11 if they pay via the iOS app) for its benefits.
Numerous journalists and public personalities are among those designated as verified without the Twitter Blue subscription. During the years that Twitter operated without Musk, this blue tick system assisted in establishing the veracity of assertions and reports emanating from those profiles and elevated Twitter to the status of a reliable news source.
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Musk’s hatred for the old system has frequently been expressed in light of his contempt for journalists, who have frequently been the busiest verified users on Twitter. After largely ignoring journalist inquiries in previous months, Musk this month set the press@twitter.com email account to automatically reply with a poop emoji.
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