Elon Musk Announces Colour Badges For Twitter Accounts

Billionaire Twitter owner, Elon Musk, on Friday, announced that the social media platform would be launching differently coloured badges to distinguish between accounts, while launching verified next week.

Musk, who disclosed this via his Twitter account, said: “Sorry for the delay, we’re tentatively launching Verified on Friday next week.

“Gold check for companies, grey check for government, blue for individuals (celebrity or not) and all verified accounts will be manually authenticated before check activates.”

In another tweet, Musk said all verified individual accounts would have the same blue check, but some would eventually be able to display a “secondary tiny logo showing they belong to an org(anisation) if verified as such by that org(anisation).”

Recall that the Twitter boss said the users of the platform will have to pay a sum of $8 to be verified. Initially postponed the launch date to November 29, before delaying it once more. It now appears the feature will be launched on December 2.

In his response, Musk said he wanted to charge users for subscriptions to the social media platform to diversify its income stream.

Twitter currently depends on advertising for 90 per cent of its revenue.