In a post on Saturday in an update for devices with the Apple iOS operating system, the Twitter app said users who “sign up now” can receive blue marker next to their name, “just like celebrities, companies and the politicians you already follow, the Associated Press reported.
To change means the abandonment of the current verification system used by Twitter since 2009. Its purpose was to avoid impersonating the accounts of famous people, including politicians. Before the change introduced on Saturday, there were around 423,000 verified accounts, many of which belonged to e.g. to journalists around the world.
Experts have expressed concern about the abolition to date platform verification systemwhich, while not perfect, helped 238 million Twitter users judge whether the accounts they received information from were genuine, AP said. Twitter’s update to the iOS version of its app makes no mention of verification as the main task of the new blue marker system.
The change came the day after the company began the process of mass layoffs of employees. About half of the 7.5 thousand. employee at the company, Twitter was terminated, as reported on TwitterYoel Roth, Head of Corporate Security. Even before taking over Twitter, Musk repeatedly told potential investors and partners that he wanted to financially heal the company, cutting nearly 75% off. his employees.
Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey took responsibility for these widespread job losses and apologized for the decisions he made that led to them. He wrote that he was responsible for the current situation because it had escalated too quickly companies.
