After the flawed initial rollout of Twitter's "power to the people" verification system, Elon Musk said that the social network will tentatively release a new multicoloured verification system next week.
Under this scheme, according to Twitter's owner, companies will receive a gold checkmark, government officials will receive a grey checkmark — likely similar to the "official" checkmark it is currently testing with prominent accounts — and the blue checkmark will be reserved for individuals.
Musk noted that the company intends to manually validate all verifications prior to the launch of the new verification system. As Twitter Blue subscribers will receive a blue checkmark, it is unclear what he means. In addition, Twitter's smaller crew will be under pressure to manually verify every account to prevent impersonation and spam.
Musk said that individuals might have a second, smaller emblem to indicate their affiliation with a certain group. Additionally, the organisation must confirm that the individual represents them or works for them. He stated that the decision to apply the blue checkmark to all individual accounts was made since a person's notability is subjective.
Musk suspended the redesigned Twitter Blue programme earlier this month and said that it will restart on November 29. This week, however, he put this idea on hold until there is a high degree of impersonation prevention.
He did not indicate whether this new verification mechanism will be implemented concurrently with the relaunch of Twitter Blue. Currently, it is probable that this verification restart is just for verified accounts, corporations, and government officials – not paying subscribers.
On November 9, following the launch of Twitter's new verification method, several accounts began mimicking corporations, sportsmen, and celebrities. This prompted Twitter to quickly suspend the experiment.
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