Since Elon Musk is the head of Twitter, the platform introduces new rules or changes the ones it has already introduced. Now the social network has decided to update the policy regarding the so-called. blue tokens of a verified account, so that even more dollars flow into the Twitter coffers.
Twitter account verification policy change. Pay or lose
Under Musk, Twitter remodeled the idea of a paid version of the service known as Twitter Blue and introduced new rules for verifying users on the platform. Until November 9, 2022, they successfully passed account verification, which such users also received from the platform an additional designation in the form of a blue icon.
After that date, the purchase of the Twitter Blue service became a prerequisite for verifying the account. However, the platform decided that users who had verified accounts before would still be able to use them.
Now, however, Twitter has changed its mind and – as it said – it will start removing “legacy” verification tags from April 1. So it’s about people who confirmed the authenticity before the changes, i.e. for free. Of course, Twitter also has advice for users who want to keep their tag – just subscribe to the Twitter Blue service before the end of March.
Interestingly, the announcement of the new rules coincided (probably not by accident) with another “novelty”, which, according to Elon Musk, is to appear “in the coming weeks”. The billionaire admitted this week that the platform will change the order in which replies to tweets are displayed, so that those from unverified accounts are ranked at the very bottom (Tweets from users we follow are to appear at the top, followed by those from verified accounts we do not follow).
In practice, Twitter limits the visibility of statements made by people who do not want to pay for access to the site. However, Musk explained that such a change is to promote the tweets of real people, not bots and trolls. Now we see, however, that it is part of a wider plan to force us to buy a subscription. Unless the billionaire decided to cut out an unfunny April Fool’s joke from users.
Twitter Blue has been officially available in Poland since February this year. You have to pay for access to the service. In the browser version of Twitter, the subscription costs PLN 36 per month or PLN 374.99 per year, and in the mobile application PLN 49 or PLN 514.99, respectively.
Source: Gazeta
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