Twitter’s new boss Elon Musk wants everyone to be verified on the platform as long as they pay for it.
Musk’s ultimatum: Employees have been directed to roll out paid verification for users by 7 November or they’ll be shown the door, The Verge reported citing anonymous sources and internal files.
How will it work? The new mechanism for verification will not be in the form of a new feature. Instead, engineers are looking to build upon Twitter’s existing subscription option called ‘Twitter Blue’.
Twitter Blue was rolled out in 2021
It is currently available in four countries: the US, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand
Twitter Blue works on iOS, Android, or twitter.com
Users who signed up for Twitter Blue so far have had access to premium features that lets them undo tweets, apply themes, create folders of bookmarked tweets, customise how the app looks on their devices, and more