Musk: Twitter Blue will 'most likely' come again on the finish of subsequent week

Elon Musk stated on Saturday that Twitter Blue, which permits customers to pay for a subscription that provides them a verified blue verify mark, will “most likely” return subsequent week after it was taken down amid chaos from accounts impersonating public figures. 

Musk, who serves as CEO, stated in a response to a different person on Twitter that the service would return by the tip of subsequent week. 

The subscription has been a part of a slew of modifications Musk is making to the social media platform after his buy of the corporate went by means of final month. He quickly after introduced plans to cost customers $7.99 per 30 days for Twitter verification, however the paid verify mark didn’t require customers to confirm their identities. 

Accounts impersonating figures from LeBron James to former President George W. Bush rapidly sprung up after the characteristic launched on Thursday. Twitter reportedly despatched a observe to its staff on Thursday evening to announce that sign-ups could be quickly paused to permit the corporate to deal with “impersonation points.” 

Musk stated in a tweet on Thursday that parody accounts should embrace “parody” of their identify and never simply their bios. 

“Principally, tricking individuals just isn’t okay,” he stated. 

The characteristic was solely launched on the Twitter iOS app earlier than it was taken down. 

Twitter launched further grey “official” labels to tell apart accounts verified for public figures and corporations from these for customers who paid for it, however Musk pulled the labels. A Twitter worker stated the grey labels would return. 

Musk has been making an attempt to cut back Twitter’s huge debt by means of reducing its bills and growing its income. He oversaw the shedding of about half of all Twitter staff final week.