The surrounding drama continues the new Twitter Blue subscription service and the increasingly useless verified blue check. After deploying an update to Twitter for iOS over the weekend that allegedly included Twitter Blue’s new features, a new report claims the company is now delaying those changes…
When Twitter rolled out the new version of its iOS app over the weekend, the release notes said the new Twitter Blue subscription was live. For $8 a month you’ll get a blue check added to your profile, with more features coming in a future update. “Power to the people,” the release notes read.
When this update started rolling out, users immediately started noticing that it was half-baked. Some people saw the new $8 per month subscription but without the blue badge, some saw the old version of Twitter Blue, and still others saw nothing.
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Now, The New York Times relationships that Twitter plans to delay changes to blue check verification until after Tuesday’s US midterm elections.
But many Twitter users and employees have expressed fears that the new paid badges could create confusion ahead of Tuesday’s election because users could easily create verified accounts, such as impersonating President Biden or as lawmakers or news agencies, and post false voting information. results – which could potentially be divisive. On an internal Slack channel on Saturday, a Twitter employee asked why the social network was “making such a risky change ahead of the election, which has the potential to cause election interference.”
A manager working on the verification badge project responded on Sunday that “we have made the decision to move the launch of this version to November 9, after the election.”
Also, Moss work on Twitter Sunday that “any Twitter accounts involved in the portrayal” would be “permanently suspended.”
Previously, we issued a warning before suspending, but now that we’re rolling out a blanket check, there will be no warning. This will be clearly identified as a requirement for Twitter Blue registration. Any name change will result in the temporary loss of the verified checkmark
It’s a strange form of Twitter self-admission that perhaps its plan to overhaul the verification system isn’t a good idea after all. so many people have emphasized since Elon Musk officially took over.
Twitter is flying from the seat of its pants as it works to roll out these features and changes, and it’s really starting to show. What are your thoughts? Let us know in the comments.
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