SpaceX owner and Tesla CEO Elon Musk speaks during the E3 gaming convention in Los Angeles.
The proposed new payment model would have been suspended after allowing countless users to acquire verification to impersonate entities
Elon Musk, owner since the end of October of the social network Twitter, reported on Tuesday his decision to postpone the platform’s payment verification program until November 29.
“We are postponing the release of ‘Blue Verified’ until November 29 to make sure it is rock solid,” the South African tycoon said in a message on Twitter.
Musk’s decision comes after several days in which users of the social network who had chosen to pay $7.99 a month had indicated that they could not access the functions of ‘Twitter Blue’.
The new payment model proposed by the billionaire would have been suspended after allowing countless users to acquire verification to impersonate entities of recognized prestige, damaging the reputation of companies or public figures.
As it was doing until it stopped working, ‘Twitter Blue’ includes additional functions that only its subscribers can access. Among them, to customize the icon of the ‘app’ itself and the theme of your account, activate Reading Mode or create folders of items saved from the Profile, as well as early access to functions under test, such as editing the tweets. The subscription also offers fewer ads.
Meanwhile, one of the main changes is the meaning of the blue check mark. The badge no longer only referred to accounts verified as being “active, notable and authentic”, but also indicated that the account had an active subscription to ‘Twitter Blue’, as the company explains on the page dedicated to subscription.