Elon Musk is about to sell more “golden ticks” on Twitter

Elon Musk, the new boss of Twitter recently revealed that the time to launch the account verification service is December 2. In particular, in addition to the “original” green tick, Twitter also has yellow and gray ticks to distinguish account types.

Specifically, green ticks will be used to verify official accounts, yellow ticks for companies and gray ticks for government organizations.

Elon Musk added that the green tick will be applied to all individual user accounts in need and will be manually verified before providing the authentication mark.

The fact that the green tick is provided to every individual account, celebrity or not, has many people worried about distinguishing celebrity accounts. Previously, Twitter had to stop providing the service when a series of impersonated accounts also had green ticks.

In response to this concern, Musk asserted that users can rely on information such as follower numbers, biographies or affiliated organizations to distinguish between public figures and people with similar names on the Internet. Twitter. Influential individuals will have a secondary logo, he said, showing they are affiliated with an organization when verified. This mechanism will be explained by him next week.

After a series of decisions by Musk to become the boss of Twitter, many large companies have stopped advertising on the platform. The account verification and ticking service is Musk’s attempt to find a new revenue stream for Twitter.