The owner of Twitter, businessman Elon Musk, announced Tuesday that, as of April 15, only verified accounts on the social network, that is, those that pay a fee, can be recommended to other users.
Musk published a tweet on Tuesday announcing these new measures, which involve a reorganization of the so-called ‘Twitter Blue’, a classification that is applied to accounts that pay a fee to obtain verification and, therefore, have a blue mark.
The businessman stated that this measure is the only realistic way to deal with the control of the swarms of Artificial Intelligence ‘bots’ that interfere in the network through content automatically generated by computer programs.
The measure, according to the executive director of Twitter, also implies that only verified subscribers will be able to vote in the surveys carried out on the social network.
In this way, accounts that do not pay fees will not be included in the flow of ‘tweets’ recommended to other network users.
Currently, Twitter profiles pay around seven dollars (6.5 euros) per month to obtain the blue tick in their accounts, which guarantees that it is a verified profile and that gives access to additional resources on the network.
The initiative comes just two days after Musk assured Twitter employees, in an internal note, that the company’s value fell to 20,000 million dollars (18,564 million euros), less than half of the 44,000 million dollars (40,842 million euros) that he paid for the purchase. Last October.
The billionaire, who since his arrival at Twitter has reduced his workforce by almost a quarter and has sold much of the furniture at his headquarters in San Francisco, has not been able to avoid losing a large number of advertisers, the company’s main source of income. . and its new paid “Twitter Blue” doesn’t seem to have improved the situation either.
Source: TSF
