Elon Musk explains why \u201cOfficial\u201d Twitter tag was scrapped in hours Wikimedia CommonsElon Musk explained during a Twitter Space why he decided to remove the \u201cOfficial\u201d Twitter tags from accounts just hours after launch. Elon Musk\u2019s eight-dollar Twitter verification plan finally launched on November 9, alongside a secondary \u201cOfficial\u201d tag that verified government accounts, content creators, media, publications, and more. Shortly after its launch, however, it was met with backlash from tons of users who didn\u2019t like the design aspect of having two verification marks. Elon quickly removed the extra badge from profiles and explained why he did so just a few hours later. Elon Musk explains why he scrapped Twitter \u201cOfficial\u201d badge During a Twitter-wide \u2018Spaces\u2019 conversation hosted by Chief Twit (Musk\u2019s self-appointed nickname), he was asked about the quick withdrawal of the \u201cOfficial\u201d verification badges. \u201cApart from it being an aesthetic nightmare when looking at the Twitter feed it is simply another way of creating a two-class system,\u201d Elon Musk said. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t addressing the core problem of there are too many entities that would be considered official or have legacy blue check marks.\u201d The \u201ctwo-class system\u201d mentioned by Musk today is in reference to his tweet announcing the $8 verification system, where he called the existing setup the \u201cLords & Peasants\u201d system. It\u2019s unknown whether or not he will decide to bring back another variation of the short-lived \u201cOfficial\u201d badge, but we\u2019ll be sure to update if he does. Alongside the new Twitter Blue verification system came a new set of guidelines for users, including the mention of rules you must abide by with your subscription.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Elon Musk explains why \u201cOfficial\u201d Twitter tag was scrapped in hours Wikimedia CommonsElon Musk explained during a Twitter Space why he decided to remove the \u201cOfficial\u201d Twitter tags from accounts just hours after launch. Elon Musk\u2019s eight-dollar Twitter verification plan finally launched on November 9, alongside a secondary \u201cOfficial\u201d tag that verified government accounts, content […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}