Elon Musk holds off Twitter's blue verification badge relaunch

Twitter CEO Elon Musk on Tuesday announced that he is putting on hold the relaunch of Blue verified until there is high confidence of stopping impersonation He made the announcement through a tweetElon Musk stated that Twitter might use different colour checks for organizations and individuals Taking to his official Twitter handle Musk said Holding off relaunch of Blue Verified until there is high confidence of stopping impersonation Will probably use different color check for organizations than individualsAfter taking over the microblogging site Musk had announced the ability for users to purchase a blue tick verified through Twitter Blue Despite getting internal warnings from Twitters own trust and safety staff Musks plan resulted in the impersonation of highprofile accounts including Twitters advertisers The Verge reportedAfter Musk took over Twitter the microblogging site has been adding and removing separate grey checkmarks on highprofile accounts without explaining the reasonOn Monday Elon Musk told Twitter employees that the company will not relaunch its paid verification subscription Twitter Blue until they are confident about significant impersonations not happening The Verge cited a recording of his remarksAlso Read Twitter crash theories trend experts donrsquot agreeLast week Elon Musk said that his 8 per month Blue subscription will be made available on November 29 However in his meeting with employees he confirmed that the timing of the launch of Blue verified was not clear as per The Verge reportIn his meeting with Twitter employees Elon Musk said We might launch it next week We might not But were not going to launch until theres high confidence in protecting against those significant impersonations The Verge reportedElon Musk in his meeting with Twitter employees on Monday said that the company will probably need to give institutions and companies a different colour check However he did not give further details regarding the planMusk stressed any social media platform according to him is going to be vulnerable to bots and trolls until there is payment introduced to increase the cost of bots and trolls significantlyMeanwhile Elon Musk in a tweet on November 22 claimed that Twitter has added 16 million daily active users in the past week and called it an alltime high Musk tweeted Twitter added 16M daily active users this past week another alltime highThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever