Elon Musk announced Tuesday that the launch of Twitter’s new paid subscription has been postponed until November 29, after ten days of multiple controversies surrounding the new owner’s flagship project.
Before the Tesla boss took over Twitter on October 27, the platform offered, on the one hand, a free identity verification service for notorious organizations and individuals and, on the other hand, a paid subscription to options additional, called Twitter Blue.
Elon Musk has released manu militari the revision of this subscription to add authentication, which all users will be able to get, regardless of their notoriety, for eight dollars a month.
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The new Twitter Blue was activated on iPhones a week ago with complete cacophony, days after half of the company’s 7,500 employees were laid off.
For 48 hours, many accounts posed as celebrities or large corporations, from LeBron James to Nintendo. Pharmacist Eli Lilly had to apologize on Thursday after a successful tweet from an account in her name, with the blue checkmark, that promised free insulin.
On Friday, the ability to subscribe to “Twitter Blue” disappeared, and an internal memo, published by some US outlets, said the service was suspended “to address phishing issues.”
In the system that will launch on November 29, “any name change will cause the loss of the blue tick until Twitter verifies the name,” Elon Musk promised Tuesday. He also said that people who don’t subscribe will lose the blue tick (if they got it for free) in the coming months.
Source: BFM TV
