Elon Musk says Twitter to launch gold, grey checks alongside blue verified mark

Twitter will roll out verified gold and gray examine marks because it relaunches the coveted blue examine service subsequent Friday, Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk stated in a tweet, after holding off the rollout earlier this week.

“Gold check for companies, grey check for governments, blue for individuals (celebrities or not). Painful, but necessary,” Musk stated in a tweet.

All verified accounts will probably be manually authenticated earlier than the examine is activated, Musk stated.

“Individuals can have a secondary tiny logo to show they belong to an organization if verified as such by that organization,” Musk stated in one other tweet, including that he’ll give an extended clarification subsequent week.
The firm had paused its lately introduced $8 blue examine subscription service as faux accounts mushroomed, and had stated the sought-after blue examine subscription service will probably be relaunched on Nov. 29.

The blue examine mark was beforehand reserved for verified accounts of politicians, well-known personalities, journalists and different public figures.

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