{"id":1748970,"date":"2022-11-23T06:02:04","date_gmt":"2022-11-23T11:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1748970"},"modified":"2022-11-23T08:18:17","modified_gmt":"2022-11-23T13:18:17","slug":"elon-musk-delaying-twitter-blue-checkmark-launch-may-offer-different-colors-for-organizations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/elon-musk-delaying-twitter-blue-checkmark-launch-may-offer-different-colors-for-organizations\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk Delaying Twitter Blue Checkmark Launch, May Offer Different Colors for Organizations"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Felon-musk-delaying-twitter-blue-checkmark-launch-may-offer-different-colors-for-organizations%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1748970&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-elon-musk\">Elon Musk<\/a> said that he was delaying the relaunch of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-twitter\">Twitter<\/a> Blue Verified checkmark after users abused the system and pretended to be celebrities, government officials, and legitimate organizations following an earlier launch.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHolding off relaunch of Blue Verified until there is high confidence of stopping impersonation,\u201d Musk stated in a tweet on Tuesday. \u201cWill probably use different color check for organizations than individuals,\u201d he said, without giving any further details on the new system, while many users pitched in their ideas for a robust checkmark.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne color for public figures and institutions, another color for people who sign up for verification,\u201d said far-right political commentator James Lindsay, who was previously banned on the platform. Musk had said that the Blue Verified will be rolled out starting Nov. 29, and that he was waiting for it to be \u201crock solid.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Twitter gave government accounts and official brands an option to display a gray \u201cOfficial\u201d checkmark, and offered the blue version for users willing to pay $8 monthly, but soon rescinded the offers. There were confusions as some accounts showed both checkmarks.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter\u2019s blue checkmark was previously reserved for verified accounts of famous personalities, including politicians, government officials, and journalists.<\/p>\n<p>However, Musk confirmed earlier in the month that some Twitter employees were selling the verification badges for \u201cupwards of $15,000,\u201d according to WSBChairman, a user with 900,000 followers.<\/p>\n<p>Badges that verified users were supposed to be used for checking the authenticity of the account, but it created a \u201clord and peasant\u201d system on the platform.<\/p>\n<h2>State of Twitter<\/h2>\n<p>According to SimilarWeb, the number of Twitter users in October was 7 billion, an increase of nearly 3 percent compared to 6.8 billion in September.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwitter added 1.6 million daily active users this past week, another all-time high,\u201d said Musk in a tweet on Tuesday. He posted a graph showing 213.8 million daily active users in the week ended Nov. 20, adding that \u201cthis will improve a lot as Twitter becomes fast to use outside of North America, Western Europe &#038; Japan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Musk\u2019s Nov. 19 poll asking whether former President Donald Trump should be reinstated on the platform was voted by over 15 million users, with 134 million having seen the poll, said Musk.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s account was restored after a majority of users voted to get the former president back on Twitter. However, it remains unclear whether Trump, who used to be a prolific influencer with nearly 90 million followers, will come back.<\/p>\n<p>Musk has brought back several prominent influencers onto the platform, including Jordan Peterson, satirical Christian website The Babylon Bee, and investigative journalism watchdog Project Veritas, who were censored by the earlier management.<\/p>\n<p>Several users are also quitting the platform after the Musk takeover, citing disagreements with how the industrialist is running the company.<\/p>\n<p>Musicians Jack White and Trent Reznor are among the latest quitters. \u201cWe don\u2019t need the arrogance of the billionaire class to feel like they can just come in and solve everything. Even without him involved, I just find that it has become such a toxic environment. For my mental health, I need to tune out. I don\u2019t feel good being there anymore,\u201d said Reznor in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter.<\/p>\n<p>CBS News announced it was leaving Twitter, citing \u201can abundance of caution,\u201d but later reversed course and said that it will resume posting content.<\/p>\n<p>Luxury brand Balenciaga removed its Twitter account, but has not stated any reasons publicly.<\/p>\n<p>Celebrities who are no longer on the platform include Whoopi Goldberg, Shonda Rhimes, Gigi Hadid, Toni Braxton, Sara Bareilles, Erik Larsen, and T\u00e9a Leoni, according to a report by Rolling Stone magazine.<\/p>\n<div class=\"author_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"one_author_block round\">\n<div class=\"top_row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/author-naveen-athrappully\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/NaveenAthrappully.jpg\" alt=\"Naveen Athrappully\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Naveen Athrappully is a news reporter covering business and world events at The Epoch Times.\n<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk said that he was delaying the relaunch of the Twitter Blue Verified checkmark after users abused the system and pretended to be celebrities, government officials, and legitimate organizations<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1695609,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1748970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1748970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1748970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1748970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1695609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1748970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1748970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1748970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}