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Twitter Rolls Out New $8 Subscriptions Offering Verification by fergie001(op): 9:04pm On Nov 05, 2022

Twitter on Saturday launched a subscription service for $8 a month that includes a blue checkmark now given to verified accounts as new owner Elon Musk overhauls the platform’s verification system.

In an update to Apple iOS devices, Twitter said users who “sign up now” can receive the blue checkmark next to their names, “just like the celebrities, companies and politicians you already follow.”

The change represents the end of Twitter’s current verification system, which was launched in 2009 to prevent impersonations of high-profile accounts such as celebrities and politicians. Twitter before the overhaul had about 423,000 verified accounts, many of them rank-and-file journalists from around the globe that the company verified regardless of how many followers they had.

Experts have raised grave concerns about upending the platform’s verification system that, while not perfect, has helped Twitter’s 238 million daily users determine whether the accounts they were getting information from were authentic. The update Twitter made to the iOS version of its app does not mention verification as part of the new “blue check” system.

It comes a day after the company began laying off workers to cut costs. About half of the company’s staff of 7,500 was let go, tweeted Yoel Roth, Twitter’s head of safety & integrity.

Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey on Saturday took blame for such widespread job losses. He had two runs as CEO of Twitter, with the most recent stretching from 2015 into 2021.

“I own the responsibility for why everyone is in this situation: I grew the company size too quickly,” he tweeted. “I apologize for that.”

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Re: Twitter Rolls Out New $8 Subscriptions Offering Verification by Scammerr(m): 9:05pm On Nov 05, 2022*

Twitter should unverify me, asap.

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Re: Twitter Rolls Out New $8 Subscriptions Offering Verification by PlayMaker14: 9:16pm On Nov 05, 2022

I love Elon Musk and how he overhauled the useless way some people gets verified before now.

Some proud fools do feel like gods amongst men because of that blue tick especially some of our Nigerian celebrities.

grin

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Re: Twitter Rolls Out New $8 Subscriptions Offering Verification by ojun50(m): 9:18pm On Nov 05, 2022

There wahala

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Re: Twitter Rolls Out New $8 Subscriptions Offering Verification by dawnomike(m): 10:06pm On Nov 05, 2022

Welcome to the era of Elon

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Re: Twitter Rolls Out New $8 Subscriptions Offering Verification by bigdammyj: 10:39pm On Nov 05, 2022

Noted.

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Re: Twitter Rolls Out New $8 Subscriptions Offering Verification by christejames(m): 10:39pm On Nov 05, 2022

Elon Musk is indeed a business man grin

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Re: Twitter Rolls Out New $8 Subscriptions Offering Verification by GarkiAccessory(m): 10:39pm On Nov 05, 2022

Re: Twitter Rolls Out New $8 Subscriptions Offering Verification by abobote: 10:40pm On Nov 05, 2022

One good thing about this new Twitter owner, is that Twitter will be more open now, we will know the day to day running of the social media, and some of us will learn a thing or two on the business side

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Re: Twitter Rolls Out New $8 Subscriptions Offering Verification by BluntCrazeMan: 10:40pm On Nov 05, 2022*

Offpoint1:
Meaning a fake account can have a blue tick with just dollar?

NO..
It Means that you must NOT have to be a celebrity, or a Politician, or a well-known person before you get the blue check.
..
All you need is for you to pass through an identification process which indicates that YOU, as the user online - is actually the same person as the user offline.
THEN YOU PAY FOR THE BLUE CHECK...

edogu:
Imagine having two Donald Trump names, all verified. How do you differentiate original from fake? There is need to put in place stringent measures such as KYC to check against scammers.

I once wanted to get verified on Twitter, and on Facebook too..
I passed all their Identification stages.
They confirmed my i.d-cards, and I did real-time facial captures.
..
But then, I am not a popular celebrity, neither am I a popular politician..
So, I couldn't pass their tests for popularity.

And that was how I was denied the blue check badge.

So, relax.
Identity of the user still counts.
But this time, popularity is no more the main criteria.
Just pay the money..
That is, if you think the Blue-check badge is so important to your brand and business.

Meanwhile,, if the only benefit of “Twitter Blue” is just the BLUE-CHECK BADGE,, then there is no need having two plans.
The $4-plan, and the $8-plan.

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Re: Twitter Rolls Out New $8 Subscriptions Offering Verification by Dialpad: 10:40pm On Nov 05, 2022

Soon to become home of junkies and haven for spammers

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Re: Twitter Rolls Out New $8 Subscriptions Offering Verification by underpinna: 10:41pm On Nov 05, 2022

Let's get down to business Musk.

But how do I profit using twitter.

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Re: Twitter Rolls Out New $8 Subscriptions Offering Verification by Sabadon(m): 10:41pm On Nov 05, 2022

This is purely business cool

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Re: Twitter Rolls Out New $8 Subscriptions Offering Verification by Newyorkitis(m): 10:41pm On Nov 05, 2022

Capitalism in action!

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Re: Twitter Rolls Out New $8 Subscriptions Offering Verification by sterlingD(m): 10:42pm On Nov 05, 2022

Scammerr:
Twitter should unverified me, asap.

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Re: Twitter Rolls Out New $8 Subscriptions Offering Verification by Nobody: 10:42pm On Nov 05, 2022

Nah, I can't afford it grin

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Re: Twitter Rolls Out New $8 Subscriptions Offering Verification by NaijaMutant(f): 10:42pm On Nov 05, 2022

Japheth Omojuwa always uses this blue tick to pepper his foes on Twitter, to the extent that he wrote a book and used his Twitter profile with the blue tick as a cover page

Elon musk don humble everybody

They can't complain before Elon musk deactivates their account, guess what, twitter made them relevant

Seun Osewa, this is your last opportunity to be verified, rush now before Elon musk change his mind, it's only $8

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Re: Twitter Rolls Out New $8 Subscriptions Offering Verification by MANNABBQGRILLS: 10:42pm On Nov 05, 2022

yahoodetector:
Elon Chukwuebuka Musk!

Hehehehehe grin

.

Seun Osewa right now.........

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Re: Twitter Rolls Out New $8 Subscriptions Offering Verification by emmanuel596(m): 10:42pm On Nov 05, 2022

Elon musk didn't come to play...pay or getat

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Re: Twitter Rolls Out New $8 Subscriptions Offering Verification by MANNABBQGRILLS: 10:42pm On Nov 05, 2022

flokii:
Trust most Nigerians to abandon twitter.. Nl ti take over.

They are all welcome with love.
We want atleast 50% of our population to be active here on Nairaland.
The owner and moderators just need to sieve out some animals in human forms in the forum.
People being happy in other member's misery and pains, making fun of people in their lowest of lows.
Low lives.
The forum needs to be sanitized.
It is only Where there is no law, there is no sin.

abobote:
One good thing about this new Twitter owner, is that Twitter will be more open now, we will know the day to day running of the social media, and some of us will learn a thing or two on the business side

That one sef dey....

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