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Twitter reinstates blue ticks for some media, celebrities

24Apr

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Twitter reinstates blue ticks for some media, celebrities

[ad_1] Twitter's blue ticks were reinstated on some media, celebrity, and other high profile accounts Saturday - a move protested by many of the recipients.Once a free sign of authenticity and fame, blue ticks must now be bought by subscribers for $8 a month, Twitter says. Non-paying accounts that had a blue tick lost it on Thursday, as owner Elon Musk implemented a strategy, dubbed "Twitter Blue", to generate new revenue, announced last year. Only a tiny fraction of blue-ticked users subscribed -- less than 5 percent of the 407,000 profiles affected, according to Travis Brown, a Berlin-based software developer who tracks social-media platforms.But on Friday and Saturday, a number of celebrities regained their blue ticks, seemingly without action on their part, including author Stephen ...

12Nov

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Twitter Blue signups unavailable after raft of fake accounts

[ad_1] Twitter's relaunched premium service was unavailable Friday after the social media platform was flooded by a wave of imposter accounts it itself had approved. Twitter's relaunched premium service — which grants blue-check “verification” labels to anyone willing to pay $8 a month — was unavailable Friday after the social media platform was flooded by a wave of imposter accounts it itself had approved.It's the latest whiplash-inducing change to the service where uncertainty has become the norm since billionaire Elon Musk took control two weeks ago. Prior to that, the blue check was granted to government entities, corporations, celebrities and journalists verified by the platform — precisely to prevent impersonation. Now, anyone can get one as long as they have a phone, a credit c...

Elon Musk gets Twitter’s blue tick verification shock, beats retreat

12Nov

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Elon Musk gets Twitter’s blue tick verification shock, beats retreat

[ad_1] In yet another shock move, Elon Musk has paused the recently announced $8 Twitter Blue tick subscription. Twitter Inc's new CEO Elon Musk has suspended the recently announced $8 blue check subscription service due to the shocking recent increase in the number of fake accounts on the social networking platform. Musk has also brought back the 'official' badge to some Twitter users. It can be known that Twitter's blue check mark was used to denote a verified account and was previously mostly reserved for famous personalities like accounts of politicians, journalists, and other public figures.However, with the announcement of the $8 subscription option, it became easier for any Twitter user to get a verified blue tick mark added to their account. Musk had rolled out the subscriptio...

Boycott Twitter? That Is What Some Want If Elon Musk Does THIS

2Nov

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Boycott Twitter? That Is What Some Want If Elon Musk Does THIS

[ad_1] Twitter Inc.’s top advertisers are being urged by dozens of advocacy groups to boycott the platform. Twitter Inc.'s top advertisers are being urged by dozens of advocacy groups to boycott the platform if its new billionaire owner Elon Musk lowers safety standards for content.The groups pressed companies including Apple Inc., Best Buy Co., Coca-Cola Co. and Verizon Communications Inc. in a letter to their chief executive officers Tuesday to commit to stop advertising on Twitter if Musk allows hate speech, misinformation and conspiracy theories to flourish on the platform. “Elon Musk is an erratic billionaire who has promised to roll back critical safeguards Twitter has put in place and replatform extremists who have repeatedly spewed hate, incited violence, and undermined our de...