Elon Musk says Twitter to soon enable organisations to identify their associated accounts

[ad_1] Elon Musk earlier said that Twitter Blue will probably “come back end of next week” Elon Musk earlier said that Twitter Blue will probably “come back end of next week” Twitter’s billionaire owner Elon Musk on November 13 said that Twitter will soon enable organisations to identify Twitter accounts associated with them as the […]

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Twitter Blue ‘probably’ coming back end of next week, Musk says

[ad_1] Twitter Blue will probably “come back end of next week”, billionaire owner Elon Musk said in a tweet on Saturday. Twitter on Friday paused its recently announced $8 blue check subscription service on Friday as fake accounts mushroomed. The coveted blue check mark was previously reserved for verified accounts of politicians, famous personalities, journalists […]

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Twitter pauses $8 subscription program after fake accounts proliferate

[ad_1] Existing subscribers will still have access to their account, said the person who asked not to be identified because the information is private. The move was reported earlier by the website Platformer. The company has also reinstated “official” badges for high-profile accounts, with the gray badge reappearing below the profiles of businesses and major […]

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Twitter’s $8 blue-tick option disappears for some users

[ad_1] Twitter Inc said on Friday it had reinstated the “official” badge given to some accounts, days after removing it, while several users reported the new $8 subscription option for the blue verification tick had disappeared. The move follows an upsurge in fake accounts on the platform after new boss Elon Musk allowed users to […]

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Fake ‘Blue Check’ Twitter accounts flourish under Elon Musk’s new plan

[ad_1] There’s a new breed of users posing as celebrities and politicians after the launch of Twitter’s $8-a-month verification service. People using false identities were awarded blue check marks on the website after the social media site changed its policy on verification after Elon Musk’s $44 billion purchase of the company last month. In one […]

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Dbrand is selling verified stickers for $8 amidst Twitter’s verification crisis

[ad_1] The Twitter takeover has taken a chaotic turn with the platform’s verification now available to pretty much anyone who can afford a Twitter Blue subscription for $8 in the US. Contrary to the verified ‘Blue Tick’ that was previously available to only notable users, the badge is now being used by many to impersonate […]

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Twitter Blue with paid verifications starts rolling out, and there’s chaos

[ad_1] “Please note that Twitter will do lots of dumb things in coming months. We will keep what works & change what doesn’t. (sic),” tweeted Elon Musk last night as the company’s Twitter Blue subscription service started to roll out. The new subscription plan lets anyone get verified for the price of $8 price in […]

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Elon Musk tries to soothe safe-space concerns of Twitter advertisers

[ad_1] Elon Musk tried to quell the concerns of advertisers that Twitter under his leadership may not be a safe place for brand marketing, acknowledging the platform needs to remove or hide hate speech and other unsavoury posts. “It stands to reason that if somebody is advertising that they do not want super negative information […]

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Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter: 5 latest developments so far

[ad_1] But now, the fun and games are over and it is time for Elon Musk to prove that he can turn around the fortunes of the company amidst rising pressure from creditors and advertisers alike. As part of these efforts, Musk has announced a set of sweeping changes to the platform, including charging $8 […]

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Elon Musk aims to start charging for Twitter verification next week

[ad_1] Twitter Inc. aims to start selling blue verification badges for user profiles as soon as next week, part of a plan by new owner Elon Musk to fight fake accounts and squeeze revenue from the company he bought for $44 billion. The badges will be part of an $8-a-month subscription that could go live […]

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