The new change makes it harder to distinguish between legacy verified accounts and accounts that paid for their verification badge.
Twitter updated its description label for accounts with verified badges Sunday, removing any distinction between users who paid for the platform’s monthly subscription and those whose identity was actually verified by the platform, a move that follows Twitter’s failure to follow through with this plan of stripping so-called legacy verified users of their blue checkmarks.
This is a change from Twitter’s previous labels for blue verified badges, which clearly mentioned if the account in question was a “legacy verified account” or an account that “is verified because it’s subscribed to Twitter Blue.”to a tweet about it with a relieved face emoji.that this could make potential impersonator accounts appear more convincing.“verified” status of accounts that did not subscribe to Twitter Blue, a move that has yet to follow through with.
users to filter legacy verified and paid verified accounts. In addition to that, there are some browser extensions that still allow users to distinguish between the two types of verified accounts.
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