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Twitter accounts to be verified with three colours from next week: Elon Musk

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Twitterโ€™s account verification program is finally set to launch next week.
CEO Elon Musk, took to the microblogging site to make the announcement. โ€œSorry for the delay, weโ€™re tentatively launching Verified on Friday next week.โ€ he posted. โ€œGold check for companies, grey check for government, blue for individuals (celebrity or not) and all verified accounts will be manually authenticated before check activates,โ€ the SpaceX owner added.
He had earlier tweeted about the usage of different colours for different organisations and individuals but fleshed out the details just recently.
โ€œAll verified individual humans will have same blue check, as boundary of what constitutes โ€œnotableโ€ is otherwise too subjective.โ€ He tweeted.
According to a report by The Verge, the microblogging platformโ€™s โ€˜Twitter Blueโ€™ subscriptions rolled out despite warnings from Twitterโ€™s own trust and safety staff.

Soon afterwards, numerous โ€˜verifiedโ€™ accounts began to impersonate well-known personalities or brands.
The chaos began with a fake Nintendo account, which posted the image of the well-known game character Mario raising a middle finger at the Twitter bird.
Meanwhile, another fake Twitter account emerged for โ€˜Eli Lillyโ€™, the pharmaceutical company. It had tweeted that insulin had become free.
As per a report by The Verge, this repelled numerous advertisers from the platform.
Subsequently, Musk pulled off the 7.99 USD service in a matter of days after its release.
Musk had taken the matter in his own hands and tweeted that any account that tried to impersonate someone else would be disabled, unless its user declared it as a parody account.
Coming to the current multi-coloured verification system, Musk called it โ€˜painful, but necessaryโ€™.
He claimed that a โ€˜longer explanationโ€™ on how the system would work would come out โ€˜next weekโ€™.

 

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