The Daddy asked if he could verify me

The Blue Check Rapture: When Elon Musk’s Twitter Takeover Goes Globally, Users Will Pay $Lambda$

Testing of the service on Saturday afternoon suggested the implementation was not yet complete. There was a new CNN-created account that did not show the checkmark on its public profile. Twitter also still appeared to be charging $4.99, an outdated price.

The decision to delay the rollout comes as the entire decision to charge users for verification has faced wide public backlash. Some celebrities on the platform posed as Musk and showed a potential flaw in the Blue Check system.

Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover has been chaotic since its slapdash inception, so it’s only fitting that his first change will scramble the platform’s social hierarchy.

When Musk first proposed a plan to allow people to buy blue checkmarks, he met with resistance from the company’s safety experts. They feared the move would be weaponized by those looking to spread disinformation, including repressive regimes hoping to disseminate propaganda.

The problem of fake and duplicate accounts on the micro-messaging site was a key factor in the effort to get out of the deal, before reversing course earlier this month.

This proposed shakeup has not gone over well with Twitter power users. Stephen King said he would not pay to be verified, and would instead begone like Enron. Musk seems to be undeterred. The Blue Check Rapture is coming.

The blue check system wasn’t a cure-all for fraud, lies, and other misinformation—Twitter’s long history of content moderation problems is well documented, plus it made a number of missteps deciding who and why to verify over the years—but verification did help the platform operate as a “town square” for sharing information. The reason why Facebook and Tik Tok cribbed the blue badges for their own networks is because of this. They have been at least somewhat helpful.

The updated version of the mobile app was launched on Thursday with a blue checkmark for users who pay a monthly subscription but the platform decided to push it back one day because of changes that CEO Elon Musk proposed.

Erratum: Sarah Silverman, CEO Valerie Bertinelli and the #VoteBlueForDemocracy Campaign

Sarah was trolling Musk by copying his profile picture, cover image and name. The handle of the account was known as SarahKSilverman.

I am an advocate of freedom of speech. I eat doody for breakfast every day. Her account has retweeted posts supporting Democratic candidates.

Visitors to the account were warned that there have been some unusual activity shown to them, before clicking through to the profile. The comedian put her own name and image on her account after changing it back to its usual form.

Television actress Valerie Bertinelli similarly changed her account name to the Twitter CEO’s, tweeting Friday that “[t]he blue checkmark simply meant your identity was verified. Scammers would have a harder time impersonating you. That is no longer the case. Good luck out there! She told her follower that he can buy a blue checkmark for only $6.99 a month, without having to verify who he is.

After changing her profile name to Musk, Bertinelli tweeted and retweeted support for several Democratic candidates and hashtags, including “VoteBlueForDemocracy” and “#VoteBlueIn2022.”

Musk said that the users wouldn’t get warning before being suspended. He wrote that this will be a condition for signing up to the service.

In the last few months, Musk has shared conspiracy theories about the attack on Pelosi, called Democrats the party of “division and hate” and warned that the woke mind virus will destroy civilization.

The Musk tax proposal for Twitter Blue: How it will affect the advertising revenue, user experience and impersonation of a company that sells an app

The company says the revamped service will cost $8 a month on the web, or $11 a month if purchased through an app on iPhones and iPads, where in-app transactions are processed through the company’s App Store, which generally levies a 30% commission.

The price new tiers follow sharp words from Musk leveled at Apple over its so-called “Apple tax,” a longtime pain point for app developers and cause of concern for regulators around the world who have viewed the fee as excessive and financially damaging to Apple’s rivals. Musk claimed that he and Tim Cook had a good meeting at Apple’s headquarters.

Musk now says there will be three colors for purchase: gold for companies; grey for governments and a blue check for prominent individuals, including celebrities.

The company says subscribers to the new Twitter Blue will also eventually have their tweets prioritized at the top of replies, mentions and search; see half the number of ads; and be able to post longer videos.

The company’s advertising business was not strong before Musk took over, and even before he took over, the company had been struggling to grow its service.

Twitter has not answered questions about whether it still has the resources to take on such a daunting task after laying off more than half of the company’s staff.

“With a reduced workforce, it remains to be seen if it will be possible to prevent fraud, impersonation and scams with their new identity verification methodology,” Rachel Tobac, the CEO of the cybersecurity firm SocialProof Security, previously told NPR. “Scammers will quickly determine how they can overwhelm or manipulate the identity verification system to get ‘authenticated’ as an entity that they are not.”

What are the Blue Checks of Twitter Blue and How Did Musk Make the Change? An Analysis with Musk’s Twitter and Apple’s App Store

You must verify the phone number of your account before you can sign up for the service. Twitter Blue costs $11 per month if you sign up through the iOS store on your iPhone (you can’t subscribe through Google Play on Android yet) or $8 per month if you subscribe through a web browser. For Apple’s App Store, the price difference is not new; in the past it has been done by YouTube Music.

There is a note on the blue checks of accounts that were verified before Musk took over that says they are a legacy verified account. It may or may not be notable.”

Musk initially said the system would be up and running at the end of November, but he was forced to delay it several times due to safety concerns.

The additional gold and gray verification categories appear aimed at addressing some of those concerns, but it’s not clear what a requirement for individuals to pay to be verified would mean for trust in prominent individual users.

“All verified individual humans will have same blue check, as boundary of what constitutes ‘notable’ is otherwise too subjective,” Musk tweeted last month. “Individuals can have secondary tiny logo showing they belong to an org if verified as such by that org.”

Are you sure what you get for the monthly subscription? Are your eyes glazing over trying to figure out what all these different colored check marks mean? This is everything you need to know.

What Do You Want to Know Before Posting on Twitter? How to Publish, Edit and Publish your Tweets in the First Hour with Twitter Blue

OK, but what do you get right now? You instantly get to make multiple edits to your messages within the first hour of posting, a long requested feature. It’s possible for subscribers of the social network to post video files at high quality. Are you still holding out for that new collection of NFT, such as a cat, a parrot or a dog? Show it off as your profile picture with Twitter Blue.

You can make aesthetic adjustments with the upgraded service. You can change the appearance of the in-app icon on your phone. For anyone who bookmarks an overwhelming assortment of Tweets, you can now sort through those bookmarked posts and organize them into private folders.

Users may begin to see certain accounts with check marks that are gold or gray. According to Twitter, gold is meant to signal an official account from a business and gray is mainly for government accounts.

After everything, are you ever still sure you want to be on Twitter? If you’re trying to find something new, consider taking a second chance, or discover new server on Discord, as there are many alternative options that can be found in WIRED articles.

Why didn’t Elon Musk Promise to Open the Twitter Ad Revenue Sharing Program on March 31st? (Or: Does he Really Want to Open Up Twitter?

CEO and owner Elon Musk has been promising prioritized ranking since November, calling the feature “essential to defeat spam/scam.” However, despite (or maybe because of) Musk’s push to make employees work in “hardcore” conditions, it hasn’t materialized. The same is true for several of his other promises — in February, he announced that Twitter was starting to share ad revenue with Blue subscribers, something that hasn’t started happening over a month later, and he promised to open source the company’s algorithm on the week of February 27th. He is now saying that it will happen on March 31st.

On Thursday the company said it was accepting applications from governmental and organizational accounts that want a grey checkmark. Head of state, congress members, parliaments, headquarters, regional level, and country level institutional accounts are some of the accounts eligible for it according to its documentation. (For example, the National Park Service has a grey check, as does the US president.)

Even if the date is serious, Musk has made a lot of promise about the future of the service. In February, Musk announced a revenue sharing program, but he still hasn’t talked about it. (Multiple Twitter Blue subscribers have told The Verge they also haven’t heard anything about the program.) Musk also promised to open source “all code used to recommend tweets” on March 31st, after missing his first self-imposed deadline to do so.

It’s also possible that Twitter actually does intend to do this, and the date was just chosen as a troll, the way Musk likes to work 69 and 420 into almost everything he does. The change was advertised at the top of a reporter’s timeline and it might happen, as it just added a huge banner.

He did, however, keep his promise to make Twitter’s press email respond to inquires with a poop emoji, which it did when we sent a request for comment for this story.