Twitter Blue will now only verify accounts after 90 days
Twitter is trying to bring order to the chaos surrounding verification on the platform. In the future, subscribers to Twitter Blue should only be able to receive a blue tick after 90 days.
The chaos surrounding Twitter verification has caused a lot of commotion on the platform over the past few days. Because Elon Musk decided after his takeover that everyone can have a blue tick on their account in the future.
Previously, this was only possible for celebrities or politicians after an examination to confirm the authenticity of their accounts. But with an upgrade to the premium Twitter Blue subscription, everyone should now have access to verification.
After numerous fake registrations, the social network Twitter Blue had put it on hold for the time being. An innovation should now remedy the situation.
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What will Twitter Blue look like in the future?
The Twitter Blue update is expected to go into effect on November 29, how The Verge reported. From then on, instant verifications should no longer be possible.
Because like that About Twitter Blue page can be seen, accounts can only complete a subscription and thus verify their account after 90 days.
Change raises new problems
However, this could also mean that Twitter is only postponing the problem of fake verifications in the future. Because accounts that are created now can still get a blue tick and mutate into a troll after 90 days without being checked.
Twitter wants to suspend verification if an account changes its name. Because here the platform first wants to check whether the new name violates the terms of use.
However, users can also change their name before signing up for Twitter Blue and then easily get a blue tick.
Twitter workforce continues to minimize
Meanwhile, the Twitter workforce continues to minimize. Because many employees are turning their backs on the platform.
The reason for this is an email from Elon Musk in which he had set a deadline for the employees. They should decide if they want to be part of an “extremely tough” culture change of the company.
At the end of the deadline, “the goodbye emojis have fluttered in Twitter’s Slack”, how The Verge reported from internal Slack messages. Accordingly, hundreds of employees reject Elon Musk’s plans.
How things should continue on Twitter is loud The Verge also questionable for many remaining employees. Because in the meantime “several ‘critical’ teams within Twitter have now either completely or almost completely resigned”. This should also include the traffic and frontend staff.
The team that maintains the central system libraries is also no longer in the company. The Verge quotes an employee who has already left: “You can’t run Twitter without this team.”
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