{"id":473889,"date":"2022-12-13T07:22:33","date_gmt":"2022-12-13T05:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=473889"},"modified":"2022-12-13T10:51:22","modified_gmt":"2022-12-13T08:51:22","slug":"twitter-blue-is-back-with-three-different-coloured-checkmarks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/473889-twitter-blue-is-back-with-three-different-coloured-checkmarks.html","title":{"rendered":"Twitter Blue is back \u2014 with three different coloured checkmarks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Twitter Inc. resumed selling its Twitter Blue premium offering, which gives users a blue verification badge by their names, following a weeks-long pause because some subscribers were using the paid service to impersonate well-known accounts.<\/p>\n

After several postponements, the social network said in a\u00a0blog post<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0that Twitter Blue is available now.<\/p>\n

Users who pay $8 a month will receive a checkmark in a blue badge next to their profile pictures and will be able to edit tweets, among other perks.<\/p>\n

Twitter said it will take \u201ca number of other steps to detect and prevent impersonation,\u201d including a requirement that users have a valid phone number attached to their account.<\/p>\n

Users who change their user name or photo will also lose their checkmark \u201cuntil those changes are reviewed by Twitter.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAccounts found to be breaking our rules may be suspended without a refund,\u201d the blog reads.<\/p>\n

Before billionaire Elon Musk took the company private in late October, Twitter verified accounts with a blue badge as a way to distinguish prominent users, or those at risk of being impersonated, including celebrities, musicians and journalists.<\/p>\n

But the process of getting verified was also unclear, and Musk has criticized it as a \u201clords & peasants system.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Basic Blue will have half the number of ads. We will offer a higher tier with no ads next year.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk)\u00a0December 13, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

The San Francisco-based company said it will also start offering different coloured check marks, including a gold one for businesses and a grey one for political accounts.<\/p>\n

In a tweet later Monday, Musk said Twitter Blue subscribers will also see half as many advertisements as regular users, and added that the company is planning to sell subscriptions for an ad-free version of the service later next year.<\/p>\n

An\u00a0earlier attempt<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>at the pay-for-verification system led to widespread impersonation when users who bought check marks changed their user names to those of prominent brands and people, including Musk.<\/p>\n

The verification process was temporarily suspended as the company tried to figure out how to fix the issue.<\/p>\n

Musk is also taking a subtle shot at Apple Inc. as part of Twitter Blue\u2019s relaunch.<\/p>\n

The company will charge users $11 per month if they subscribe through the Twitter app for Apple\u2019s iOS, an effort to recoup fees collected by Apple for in-app purchases.<\/p>\n

Musk has repeatedly complained about those fees, calling them a \u201cde facto global tax on the internet.\u201d<\/p>\n

Users who don\u2019t pay for Twitter Blue will lose their verification badges \u201cin a few months,\u201d Musk\u00a0tweeted<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0Monday, though he has made similar statements before.<\/p>\n

Now read: Elon Musk is cleaning house with a Twitter HQ auction \u2014 photos of what will be on offer<\/a><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In addition to the paid-for blue checkmark, the San Francisco-based company said it will also start offering a gold one for businesses and a grey one for political accounts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341034,"featured_media":467761,"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":[78182,82369,47316],"class_list":["post-473889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-twitter-blue","tag-verification-badge","tag-verified-accounts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473889"}],"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=473889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}