Twitter to add official mark to verified large accounts

Twitter said Tuesday it will add a gray official label to some high-profile accounts to demonstrate that they are authentic, the latest twist inside new owner Elon Musk™s chaotic overhaul of the platform™s verification system.

The site™s contemporaneous system of using what are known while blue checks confirming an account™s authenticity will in a short time go away for those who don™t pay a monthly fee. The checkmarks will exist available at a yet-to-be-announced day for anyone willing to pay a USD7.99-a-month subscription, which will too include some bonus features, such while fewer ads with every one other accompanied by the ability to have tweets specified greater visibility than those coming from non-subscribers.

The platform™s contemporaneous verification system has been inside place since 2009 with every one other accompanied by was created to build sure high-profile with every one other accompanied by public-facing accounts are who they speak they are.

Experts have expressed be about that making the checkmark available to anyone for a remittance could lead to impersonations with every one other accompanied by the spreading of misinformation with every one other accompanied by scams. The gray label ” a color that tends to blend into the background whether you use illumination or black way to scroll Twitter ” is an evident compromise. But it strength lead to additional confusion, while Twitter users accustomed to the blue inspect while a mark of authenticity will now have to look for the less clear official designation.

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    • Esther Crawford, a Twitter employee who has been employed on the verification overhaul, said Tuesday on Twitter that the official label will exist added to choose accounts when the new system launches.

    Not all formerly verified accounts will obtain the ˜Official™ label with every one other accompanied by the label is not available for purchase, said Crawford, who not long ago was the theme of a viral photo showing her sleeping on the ground of a Twitter office while employed to meet Musk™s deadlines.

    Crawford said those receiving the label include management accounts, commercial companies, work partners, greatest media outlets, publishers with every one other accompanied by some condition figures.

    There are concerning 423,000 verified accounts under the outgoing system. Many of those belong to celebrities, businesses with every one other accompanied by politicians, while well while media outlets.

    But a large chunk of verified accounts belong to individual journalists, some accompanied by tiny followings at local newspapers with every one other accompanied by report sites around the world. The idea was to verify reporters so their identities couldn™t exist used to push incorrect details on Twitter.

    Musk had formerly floated designating official accounts inside a way other than the blue check.