After April Fool’s Day had come and gone, Twitter’s blue badges remained intact on legacy accounts much to the surprise of users. An impressive move made by Elon Musk was that he decided not to remove them from those who held them. He also is allowing users to pay $8 (Rs 900 a month in India), for continued verification.
Google too will now be testing out blue ticks for verified ads due to this occurrence and follow the same trends. When it comes to verification, Musk tweeted that adding the date for verified accounts is a great way forward in order to combat corruptions with legacy check marks. This idea is to help fight against the advanced AI bot swarms that are trying to take over.
Voting in polls will require verification for the same reason with no exception. Musk made it clear that it is ok to have verified bot accounts as long as they follow terms of service and do not impersonate a human. A report revealed that half of the blue badge service subscribers have less than 1,000 followers. To reward the 10,000 top organizations, Twitter is sending out $1,000 check marks for free.
The company of this article is Twitter. Twitter is an American microblogging and social networking service on which users can post and interact with messages known as “tweets”. It has also become a popular medium used globally to share links, photos, videos and news stories.
The person mentioned in this article is Elon Musk. Elon Musk is a South African-born American entrepreneur and businessman who founded X.com in 1999 and later founded Tesla, SpaceX, the Boring Company and Neuralink. He is one of the most influential figures in the world and has achieved remarkable success in business and finance. He has become one of the world’s wealthiest people due to his various investments.
