Yesterday, a situation described as "chaotic" prevailed on the world's most famous micro-blogging site, Twitter, 24 hours after the blue ticks disappeared from documented accounts, with the spread of cases of impersonation and the spread of false and fabricated information.
The move was requested and supervised by the owner of the Blue Bird, Elon Musk, who pledged to make the troubled Twitter company profitable by any means. And last month, an internal document seen by US media showed that Musk currently estimates the value of Twitter at about twenty billion dollars, after the estimated value was 44 billion when he acquired the social network last October. And according to what was reported by the British newspaper “The Guardian”, Musk is trying to force users to pay for verification services that were previously free, for well-known personalities, celebrities and media professionals.
Twitter reportedly had about 400,000 users verified under the blue verification system, many of them journalists, athletes and public figures. The authentication process was used to mean that the account had been verified by Twitter.
The cost of maintaining tags ranges between $8 per month for individual users, and a price starting from $1,000 per month for documenting an enterprise account, in addition to $50 per month for each account of an entity or employee.
Okaz (New York) @OKAZ_online
