Since April 1 on Twitter, it is impossible to differentiate a user who has paid for a subscription from an account called “certified”. But there is still a technique to see if an account is certified: Twitter Verified, notes technology expert Mathis Hammel on Twitter.
On Twitter, any certified account, that is, a user who has earned a blue badge without paying, is tracked by Twitter Verified. To see if a person is certified, just go to the account TwitterVerified and click on “subscriptions”. The list of certified accounts is displayed. For a more specific search, click on “subscribers you know”. By deduction, the people who don’t show up have paid to get a blue badge.
For example, the BFMTV account is well certified. Like that of Pierre Niney or Michel Denisot.
13,200 accounts have paid
Twitter announced on March 31 that it wanted to remove the blue badge from previously certified accounts, in favor of the paid badges established by Elon Musk. Eventually, the old certified badges were still visible in the days after the announcement.
Following Twitter’s announcement, the risk of a non-paying certified account is seeing an imposter do so and impersonating the official account. So far, 13,200 accounts have chosen to pay to maintain their certification, according to Travis Brown, a software developer who also specializes in social media monitoring, interviewed by AFP, and Twitter Verified tracks more than 420,000 certified accounts.
Source: BFM TV
