Twitter to revise user verification process

Twitter will revise its user verification process. Elon Musk said in a tweet on Sunday, just days after he took over one of the world’s most influential social media platforms. Without giving more details, he said the whole verification process is being revamped right now. Twitter is considering charging for the coveted blue check mark verifying the identity of its account holder, technology newsletter Platformer has reported, citing two people familiar with the matter.

The CEO of Tesla Inc has not made a final decision and the project could still be scrapped but according to Platformer it is likely that verification will become a part of Twitter Blue.

Twitter Blue was launched in June last year as the platform’s first subscription service, which offers “exclusive access to premium features” on a monthly subscription basis including an option to edit tweets.

The feature to edit tweets was also made available earlier this month after Musk launched a Twitter poll in April asking his millions of followers whether they wanted an edit button. Over 70 percent had said yes.