Next week, according to Elon Musk, Twitter’s verified service with colours will launch.
Elon Musk, the chief executive, assigned colors to the categories on Friday.
Twitter Inc. plans to launch its verified service with various colored checks for people, businesses, and governments next Friday, following a disastrous initial launch that saw a spike in users impersonating brands and celebrities on the platform.
Friday saw Chief Executive Elon Musk assign colors to the various categories: gold for businesses, grey for governments, and blue checks for people, including celebrities.
He also said that verified accounts will have to go through a “painful but necessary” manual authentication process before a check can be used.
He explained in another tweet on Friday that the updated $8/month service will enable users to have a smaller, secondary logo for their businesses upon their verification. Next week, a longer explanation,
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The social media site postponed its debut on Monday to ensure its security. The service is anticipated to help Twitter increase revenue at a time when Musk is attempting to keep advertisers after purchasing the firm last month for $44 billion.
The subscription service, which Musk referred to as a “great leveler,” was put on hold on November 11 as a result of the proliferation of bogus accounts, which led the richest man in the world to reinstate the “official” badge for some users.
For instance, a user posing as the pharmaceutical business Eli Lilly & Co. tweeted that insulin would be free, causing a dip in the stock price and requiring the company to publish an apology.
Many businesses, including General Motors (GM.N) and United Airlines (UAL.O), paused or retracted their ads on the site as a result of the unrest. However, according to Musk, Twitter’s user growth is at an all-time high.
