Twitter owner businessman Elon Musk, as of April 15, only verified accounts on the social network, that is, those who pay fees can be recommended to other users.
Musk posted a tweet on Tuesday. announces these new measures, which includes the reorganization of the so-called ‘Twitter Blue’, Qualification applied to accounts that pay a fee to perform verification and thus receive a blue mark.
The South African businessman said: precaution is the only realistic way to approach control of swarms of AI “bots” interfering with the network through content automatically generated by computer programs.
According to the Twitter CEO, the measure also means: Only verified subscribers will be able to vote in polls formulated in the popular social network.
Like thisAccounts that don’t pay a fee to the company will not be included in the suggested “tweet” stream to other users on the network.S.
Twitter profiles they are currently paying about $7 a month to get blue ticks on their account guarantees that it is a verified profile and gives access to additional functions on the network.
The initiative came just two days after Musk reassured him. an internal note to your employees that the company’s value has dropped to $20 billion, less than half of the $44,000 he paid for the purchase he made last October.
Who is the billionaire Since its arrival on Twitter, it has cut almost a quarter of its staff and sold most of the furniture in its San Francisco headquarters. It hasn’t been spared the loss of a large number of advertisers, the company’s main source of income, and the new paid “Twitter Blue” doesn’t seem to have improved things either.