NEW YORK — Twitter has released a membership service for $8 a month that consists of a blue checkmark now presented to verified accounts as new operator Elon Musk overhauls the platform’s verification process.
In an update to Apple iOS gadgets Saturday, Twitter claimed users who “sign up now” can acquire the blue checkmark future to their names “just like the celebrities, businesses and politicians you currently abide by.”
The change signifies the end of Twitter’s present verification procedure, which was launched in 2009 to avert impersonations of superior-profile accounts these kinds of as celebs and politicians.
Twitter in advance of the overhaul experienced about 423,000 verified accounts, numerous of them rank-and-file journalists from about the globe that the enterprise confirmed irrespective of how a lot of followers they had.
