TIL Desk/Business/New Delhi/ As Elon Musk enters top gear in making Twitter profitable, the company on Wednesday said it will roll out another verification badge to help users understand which account is real and which one is fake, as most of them will soon have a blue verification tick after paying $8.
Esther Crawford, head of the new Twitter Blue service, said that select accounts related to governments, companies or public figures will get a gray “Official” check mark to separate them from other users. “A lot of folks have asked about how you’ll be able to distinguish between @TwitterBlue subscribers with blue check marks and accounts that are verified as official, which is why we’re introducing the “Official” label to select accounts when we launch,” she said in a tweet.
Not all previously verified accounts will get the “Official” label and the label is not available for purchase. “Accounts that will receive it include government accounts, commercial companies, business partners, major media outlets, publishers and some public figures,” Crawford explained. She also said that the new Twitter Blue does not include ID verification.
