New York (EFE) Musk, when Twitter gave this verification for free to public persons.
“We will remove legacy checkmarks,” the Twitter Verified account announced yesterday in a tweet.
Verification, one more controversy on Twitter since the arrival of Musk
Twitter Blue users can edit their tweets, post content of up to 10,000 characters, and have their tweets boosted by the platform’s algorithm.
Yet only 0.2% of web users pay for Twitter Blue: In March, Twitter Blue had around 116,000 confirmed signups across the web, up 138% from the previous month, according to Similarweb.
This amount of subscriptions does not produce enough revenue to offset the money the company lost when various companies stopped advertising on Twitter with the arrival of the CEO of Tesla and XSpace.
Musk’s constant controversies and swings during his first year online have caused advertisers to flee the 2006-founded social network in droves, causing ad revenue to recently plunge by as much as 75%, according to The Washington. Post.
Few followers?
Many users and media outlets have said they don’t plan to pay the fee of $8 per month per employee and $1,000 per month for their organizations’ checkmarks, the latter colored yellow.
As is the case of The New York Times or the actress Halle Berry, who announced yesterday that she will join the “unverified”.
The date that has been chosen for this change made us think at first that it was perhaps a joke, since April 20, written 4/20, in English, is for many “marijuana day”, and that joke Musk has already used it on other occasions.
In 2018 Musk tweeted: “I am considering taking Tesla public at $420. Financing secured” and then said it was a joke.