Twitter is making another big change to its controversial blue check system

After Elon Musk’s acquisition of the company, Twitter made a number of changes to the user experience. One of the biggest changes relates to the current blue check system. Currently, the system is in place to verify that celebrities, journalists, and public figures are who they are. Musk announced a controversial change to that system last week, which would give a blue check to anyone who pays $8 per month for Twitter Blue, with no verification required. This has led to significant concerns about impersonators, but Twitter has now revealed a new “official tag”, which will identify official accounts.

The change was announced by Esther Crawford of Twitter, an example can be found in the tweet embedded below.

Crawford went on to say that the official sticker will not be given to all previously verified accounts, and users will not be able to purchase them. Instead, it will be given “to government accounts, commercial companies, business partners, major media, publishers, and certain public figures.” The move is likely to please companies and advertisers who were worried about scammers. A number of verified accounts have protested changes to the blue check system by impersonating Elon Musk over the past few days, including comedian Kathy Griffin. The move led to several bans, and more changes to Twitter’s rules.

While this latest change should help prevent impersonators, it’s yet another example of Musk’s Twitter attempt to fix something that wasn’t broken in the first place! While the blue check holder sees a sign of the situation, that was not the intention behind him; It was always meant to be a sign of verification. Now that changes to a status code of $8 per month, with verification being something else entirely!

The numerous changes announced and modified over the past week or so are clear evidence that none of Musk’s proposals have been well thought out. The rush to create paid check marks is likely one of several attempts to redeem some of Musk’s $44 billion purchases for the company, but it’s hard to say how many people will actually spend that kind of money, especially with this latest change in place now.

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