Elon Musk’s appetite for money is reaching indescribable levels: users with the old blue tick, acquired through authentication, will have to pay or lose it.

In the past, blue ticks were given to well-known organizations, celebrities, government figures, and famous people after Twitter verified the credibility of the person or organization behind the account. But Elon Musk has bought Twitter (which he has already absorbed into X Corp. as a subsidiary…) and announced that anyone could get such a blue tick under Teitter Blue for a monthly or yearly fee. (We’ve written about the detrimental effect before when there were only blue ticks, many people simply pretended to be more prominent companies, posting stupid things.)

Twitter, which has since introduced both grey and gold ticks (government, corporate accounts), announced during the launch of Twitter Blue that the old blue ticks would be removed from affected users (who would then have the Legacy, old-style tick) so that if they didn’t pay, they would lose it. As of today, it will be taken away from “reneging defaulters,” which means that many of the parties concerned may question the information content of the tweets, as there may be users who will blindly pre-judge the identity of the poster by the absence of a tick…

Twitter has now set its sights on getting as many subscribers as possible on Twitter Blue… If you become a subscriber, you can get features that non-subscribers can’t. You can now tweet up to 10,000 characters, much longer than the current 280-character limit. It is also possible to post longer videos, and the NFT profile picture will be left without comment. The site wants to take a much more business-like approach and not present itself as a news-centric platform as it has been.

In any case, it’s somewhat interesting to see how much Twitter has changed under Musk, and we’re not sure it’s improved in all cases.

Siource: WCCFTech