Elon Musk and the Twitter Drama!
Reactions are still trailing the commercialization of Twitter’s verified status – the blue tick?
Now Tesla CEO Elon Musk, the world’s second-wealthiest person who purchased Twitter in October last year when he was the richest in the world, announced on April 12 that on April 20, the social network will take away the verification badges from people who do not subscribe to Twitter Blue. As warned, the badges were removed at the end of the ‘deadline.’
Prior to the billionaire’s takeover, getting verified on Twitter was free of cost.
But how are Twitter users taking this development? In a swift development, after an outcry, Twitter restored blue ticks for several accounts, doing so just days after removing these for users who did not pay to keep their ‘verified’ status despite a ‘deadline’ given by owner Elon Musk to subscribe to Twitter Blue, the microblogging platform’s $8 (5,000cfa) a monthly paid subscription service, which adds the blue verification checkmarks to accounts.
Social media consultant Keynode Michael throws more light on this development with WADR’s Imoh Edet.
