Twitter user web design bug in new gold checkmark

Ever since Elon Musk took over Twitter and announced that he would be selling blue checks for a monthly fee, the entire “verified” system has been under a great deal of scrutiny. With Twitter seemingly making snap decisions without considering their consequences, and questioning whether doing so would violate an agreement the previous administration made with the government, there has been plenty of conversation about change. Along the way, concern about what advertisers think has contributed to the creation of another level of verification, the “official” check. The golden check is something you can’t apply for, and Twitter unilaterally gives it to brands and government accounts.

And apparently, there are a few misplaced pixels that are driving one user crazy. Saying they’re checking to see if Design Twitter is still there, they shared an enlarged photo of the gold check mark.

Hey, at least it supposedly proves that no one lazily did the blue check and flooded it. See the bright side!

“I also want to make Twitter better than ever by improving the product with new features, making the algorithms open source to increase trust, defeating spam bots, and befriending all humans,” Musk said upon closing the deal in April. “Twitter has huge potential – I look forward to working with the company and its user community to unlock it.”

Since then, Twitter has been mired in constant controversy. Musk tried to back out of the deal, and the court ordered him to stick to the agreement he made with the former ownership. Then, upon taking office, he appears to have spent a good portion of his time trolling users, getting into fights, and unilaterally setting up arbitrary rules. Even among people who cooperate closely with Musk politically, there is a lot of skepticism about his management of the company, which immediately lost about half of its advertisers when he took office.

Musk promised complete and unfettered freedom of expression, which has put off corporate advertisers worried the platform could become a haven for scammers and hate speech as a result. It has been suggested that the way to recover some of that money is by selling the verified blue check, putting the onus on users rather than advertisers to keep the social media giant afloat.

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