Going on Twitter could be getting even *more* colorful as early as next week. New CEO Elon Musk tweeted out a plan to expand on Twitter's blue check verification badge with a few more colors, including gray and gold. Here's how it could work.
New CEO Elon Musk wants to expand on its hallmark blue verification badge with a few more colors, including: a “gold check” for companies, a “grey check” for government accounts, along with the already infamous “blue check” for individuals.
The Tesla TSLA, -0.26% and SpaceX CEO elaborated in the Twitter thread that “all verified individual humans will have same blue check,” regardless of whether they are notable accounts or celebrities, while adding that a further explanation of Twitter’s verification plan will come next week. The multi-colored verification plans come while Twitter has paused its $8-a-month Twitter Blue verification subscription service after several users created fake verified accounts that impersonated notable accounts and spread misinformation. These included accounts impersonating numerous reporters and drugmaker Eli Lilly LLY, +0.
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