{"id":468323,"date":"2022-11-10T07:51:44","date_gmt":"2022-11-10T05:51:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=468323"},"modified":"2022-11-10T07:51:44","modified_gmt":"2022-11-10T05:51:44","slug":"twitter-kills-second-verification-badge-hours-after-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/468323-twitter-kills-second-verification-badge-hours-after-launch.html","title":{"rendered":"Twitter kills second verification badge hours after launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter Inc. rolled out a new \u201cofficial\u201d badge for high-profile accounts and then just as quickly scrapped the program, with Elon Musk saying the company would do further experiments under his ownership.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlease note that Twitter will do lots of dumb things in coming months,\u201d he\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1590384919829962752\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tweeted<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0after saying that he had killed the program. \u201cWe will keep what works &amp; change what doesn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The short-lived \u201cofficial\u201d badge was used to label government figures, businesses, major media outlets and some public figures.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter users noticed it appearing on more accounts overnight, and it drew some puzzled reactions, with some suggesting it looked cluttered beneath the existing blue verified badge.<\/p>\n<div class=\"news-social-embedded\" data-social-media-type=\"twitter\" data-original-url=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/statuses\/1590384919829962752\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Please note that Twitter will do lots of dumb things in coming months.<\/p>\n<p>We will keep what works &amp; change what doesn\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1590384919829962752?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">November 9, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>Musk, the chief executive officer of Tesla Inc., acquired Twitter last month for $44 billion and embarked on a flurry of changes.<\/p>\n<p>After unseating top management and the board, he laid off roughly half the company\u2019s workers last week \u2014 though some employees were<strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2022-11-06\/twitter-now-asks-some-fired-workers-to-please-come-back\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">asked to come back<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>His ideas for Twitter\u2019s verified badges \u2014 known as blue checks \u2014 have drawn particular scrutiny.<\/p>\n<p>Musk plans to let users who pay $8 a month <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2022-11-05\/twitter-rolls-out-8-subscriptions-promises-half-the-ads\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">get the badges<\/a><\/strong>, which have been used to help celebrities, public figures and organizations protect their identities on the platform.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"my-4\">Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/468041-these-whatsapp-messages-can-cause-legal-trouble-for-group-admins-and-companies-in-south-africa.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">These WhatsApp messages can cause legal trouble for group admins and companies in South Africa<\/a><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The short-lived \u201cofficial\u201d badge was used to label government figures, businesses, major media outlets and some public figures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341034,"featured_media":466761,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[11373,405,78182,82443,47316],"class_list":["post-468323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-elon-musk","tag-twitter","tag-twitter-blue","tag-twitter-verification-badge","tag-verified-accounts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468323"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341034"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}