Elon Musk Is About to 'Revamp' Twitter's Verification Process. Here's What That Means for the Little Blue Checkmark.The company's Twitter Blue subscription will likely factor into the equation.
ByAmanda Breen•
Elon Musk'sTwittertakeover is fully underway: He's fired multiple executives and is moving forward with other changes too.
That includes reconfiguringTwitter's user verification process,Reutersreported, making those little blue checkmarks a bit harder to maintain.
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"The whole verification process is being revamped right now," Musktweetedon Sunday.
The whole verification process is being revamped right now
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk)October 30, 2022
Although thebillionaire SpaceX founderdidn't disclose further details, technology newsletterPlatformerTwitter可能需要用户宣布to subscribe to Twitter Blue if they want to keep theiridentity-verifying checkmarks.
Twitter Blue, launched last June, verifies users and offers "exclusive access to premium features," including the option to edit Tweets.
Additionally,The Vergereported that Twitter will increase the price of its Blue subscription from $4.99 to $19.99 per month.
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Twitter Inc is up nearly 23% month over month.
