Twitter has changed verified account badges colors, yellow or gold for companies, blue for notorious profiles or subscribers.
The company, led by Elon Musk, is making these changes. Control Following the relaunch of the Twitter Blue subscription service this Monday. In this sense, accounts that pay subscription fees will also be able to receive verification with a blue badge.
But starting this Tuesday, you can also see: yellow or gold badges, without the account user taking any action. This is a verification for accounts that are official companies on Twitter. That is, the media and companies, although they are also featured in some government profiles.
This badge is colored out of blue to distinguish these profiles and their posts from other verified users to avoid confusion. Likewise, the yellow verification corresponds to the gray ‘Official’ label that can be seen on the profiles of these accounts.
The blue badge can be used for different identifications. specifically, there three reasons why a user might have a blue badge: notoriety account, subscription twitter blue or if I’ve already done the verification.
The blue symbol is the same in all three cases, but Twitter offers an explanation of eachdepending on the profile, by clicking this badge that appears directly next to the account name.
Fame-verified accounts are the ones the platform considers. related to government, news, entertainment and other categories or social fields. Profiles with this verification are therefore approved by the company’s new criteria.
However, on accounts with blue badges that protect it ancient agesso Twitter explains it “may or may not be relevant.” In other words, it retains the blue icon as it already had the blue icon before the new verification criteria took effect and was included in Twitter Blue.
As such, these accounts are awaiting verification of identity, as well as the presumed notoriety the profile has, according to current criteria. about one temporary control statusbecause Twitter will review these verifications and decide whether to give a new verification or remove that recognition.
Finally, accounts that subscribe to Twitter Blue also have this blue badge, following the subscription model’s previously announced plan. paying users eight dollars a month in the web version and eleven dollars iOS devices will be able to have this badge.
However, there are also certain criteria meet among Twitter Blue users to get the privilege. This will only provide the blue badge to accounts with: full profilethat is, with a generic name and photo.
Another of Twitter’s requirements for a profile to have a blue mark is when performing this verification process, it determines whether it meets other conditions such as having logged activity in the last days and having more of the account. 90 days or contain a contact phone number associated with the profile.
This method, which includes the popular blue badge of the social network, is currently only United States, Canada, Australia and New ZealandAlthough the company plans to roll out Twitter Blue to more countries soon.
And the ‘official’ tag?
Musk himself a few weeks ago new color system for verified accounts including one gray badge for government profiles that are not yet implemented.
Besides these emblems, there would be a gray round label under the name and on it “formal“, already introduced a few weeks ago. This sticker with the application of golden badges disappeared your profiles.