Elon Musk sets new date for deleting old verified Twitter account

Elon Musk has set a new date for deleting old verified accounts on accounts deemed relevant by Twitter, after the mogul promised in late March that all users who didn’t pay for Blue would automatically lose their badge from April 1.

Elon Musk singled out that all the old checks They will be removed April 20.. Unless, of course, they pay $8 a month for Twitter Blue. They are specifically 20 days after the start date. Since then only the official account The newspaper “New York Times he lost the badge on the direct orders of the magnate himself. Upon learning that the newspaper was not going to pay $1,000 a month to check the company.

In early April, none of the users with the old verification saw the badge disappear from their profile, despite Musk’s plans. Presumably due to technical difficulties as stated Washington Post. Apparently deleting Twitter verification is not a process that can be done on a large scale, but this is done manually, one at a time. “This is a largely manual process, driven by a breakage-prone system that relies on a large internal database, similar to an Excel spreadsheet, that stores validation data,” the source cited clarifies.

In addition, in many cases, employees tried to remove the badge from the profile, but the change was not applied. Therefore, the manual process did not always work correctly. Twitter may now have a system to bulk remove badges for accounts that do not have an active Twitter Blue subscription.

These are the new Twitter checks

In addition, the inability to eliminate the old Twitter verification prompted the company to develop a new system that make it nearly impossible to check who had the old badge or who paid for the blue. Now, in fact, when you click on the icon that appears next to the profile name, the following message appears. “This account is verified because it follows Twitter Blue or is a verified account on the old system.”

With the removal of old verifications, Twitter won’t need to include any kind of notification. Well, let’s remember, it distinguishes by colors those verified accounts that are associated with government agencies, companies and users who pay for Twitter Blue. This is done as follows:

• Blue check: users who pay for Twitter Blue
• Golden check: company or organization accounts. Businesses can also screen employees. In this case, an icon with the company logo will appear next to the icon.
• gray tick: accounts of government organizations or individuals associated with a government organization, such as the president of a country.