Lately excitement It’s in the eye of the whirlwind after all the controversy over its acquisition by Elon Musk. Tesla’s CEO is now also the CEO of the popular little bird social network, and in addition to a series of major layoffs, some changes have come to the platform as well.
For example, at the time Elon Musk announced that the verification badge will cost $8 per month. The only way to verify this way was to pay for Twitter Blue, which also increased in price.
Although he later changed his mind, and yesterday we announced that a free verification system is finally coming, which will be limited to accounts of public institutions, people of great importance and private companies.
So you can find out who paid for Twitter verification
The problem is, the confusion is huge since there are two ways to get a blue check. And fortunately, You can find out if someone has paid or “earned” for this item.
We’re talking about the Chrome extension that Will Seagar and Walter Lim started, aptly named “eight bucks” by their colleagues at XDA Developers.
After installing these Chrome extensions for your browser, you will see that the blue check mark on Twitter user profiles has changed into two completely different tags. This way, you will be able to distinguish very simply whether an account is indeed verified or just one of the following. Benefits you can take advantage of by going to Twitter Blue.
If you want to try this extension for Chrome, no mystery anymore. All you have to do is go to the GitHub repository where you can find this project, download the existing file and go to chrome://extensions in Chrome for desktop.
Now, you have to enable developer mode on this website. To do this, simply click on the element in the upper right corner and click the Install button to install the extension you have downloaded.
As you may have verified, The process is pretty simple So, feel free to install this completely free Chrome extension to find out which users have paid to verify their Twitter accounts and which have earned the blue badge. And by the way, you can avoid cheating as there are many verified accounts by Twitter Blue that replace the original accounts…
Source: Cincodias Elpais
