The owner of Twitter, businessman Elon Musk, announced on Tuesday that from April 15, only verified accounts on the social network, that is, those who pay a fee, can be recommended to other users.
Musk published a tweet today announcing these new measures, which involve a reorganization of the so-called “Twitter Blue,” a classification applied to accounts that pay a fee to obtain verification and are thus marked blue.
Starting April 15, only verified accounts are eligible for “For You” recommendations.
This is the only realistic way to prevent advanced AI bot swarms from taking over. Other than that, it’s a hopeless losing battle.
Voting in polls requires verification for the same reason.
– Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 27, 2023
The South African businessman said this measure is the only realistic way to address the control of swarms of artificial intelligence ‘bots’ that disrupt the network through content automatically generated by computer programs.
The measure also means that only verified subscribers can vote in surveys conducted on the social network, according to Twitter’s executive director.
This way, accounts that don’t pay a fee are not included in the stream of “tweets” recommended to other network users.
Currently, Twitter profiles pay about $7 a month to get the blue check mark on their accounts, guaranteeing that it’s a verified profile and giving access to additional resources on the network.
The initiative comes just two days after Musk assured Twitter employees in an internal note that the value of the company fell to $20,000 million (18,564 million euros), less than half of the $44,000 million (40,842 million euros) paid for the purchase last October.
The billionaire, who has cut his workforce by nearly a quarter since joining Twitter and sold much of the furniture at his San Francisco headquarters, has been unable to avoid losing a large number of advertisers, the company’s main source of income. , loses. and its new paid “Twitter Blue” doesn’t seem to have improved the situation either.
Source: DN
