The new version of Twitter’s account verification programme has officially gone live along with an old tweet from the BCCI Twitter handle abusing an user
Prior to this update, every account had a blue tick; now, some accounts have turned gold.
Old Tweet From BCCI Twitter Handle Abusing Fan Goes Viral
@HahaIndian Bhenchod click here http://t.co/kNShYuCJDa for your Sachin Tendulkar personalized digital autograph.
— BCCI (@BCCI) November 7, 2013
Elon Musk, the company’s CEO, made the news on the micro-blogging platform last month that they apologize for the delay in account verification. However, he promised to launch Verified on Friday of the next week.
The SpaceX owner continued, “Gold checks for businesses, grey checks for the government, blue checks for people (famous or not), and all confirmed accounts will be manually authenticated before check activation.” He has previously tweeted on the use of various colours for various organisations and people, but only recently did he go into more detail. Elon Musk tweeted that all confirmed individuals will get the same blue check because the definition of “notable” is too subjective otherwise.
It was a failure to provide blue checks as subscriptions.
At first, Musk said that users of Twitter would have to pay $8 to have their accounts verified on the service. The Verge reported that despite warnings from Twitter’s own trust and safety personnel, the micro-blogging platform’s “Twitter Blue” subscriptions went live. Following that, several “verified” accounts started to imitate well-known figures or brands.
The commotion started when a phoney Nintendo account released an image of the well-known video game character Mario giving the Twitter bird the middle finger. Another phoney Twitter account for the pharmaceutical corporation “Eli Lilly” has also surfaced. The fact that insulin was now free has been tweeted.
The Verge said that this drove many advertisers away from the platform. Musk then quickly abandoned the 7.99 USD service once it had been introduced. Any account that attempted to mimic someone else would be disabled, according to a tweet from Musk, unless the account’s owner acknowledged it to be a parody account.
Regarding the existing approach of multi-coloured verification, Musk described it as painful, but necessary. He stated that a further description of the operation of the system would be released next week.
What do the various checkmarks mean?
According to sources, Twitter is replacing the present blue accounts with three divisions and each of which will be shown in a different colour. They have unveiled three colours which are gold, grey and blue.
According to Twitter’s new guidelines, verified businesses or official business accounts have a gold tick. For authorised government accounts, use grey, whereas for private accounts, use blue.