Elon Musk’s Twitter promised a purge of blue check marks. Instead he singled out one account

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Some VIP Twitter users woke up on Saturday and waited to lose the greedy blue verification control signs in a liquidation announced by Elon Musk. Instead, Twitter seemed to be targeting a single account from a main branch. The broadcast Musk does not like and changed the language on the site to hide why users were verified.

Twitter said on April 1, emphasizing the protection of high -profile users under the risk of taking on identity, the blue controls given under the old verification system will “hug”. Musk said users should pay $ 8 a month to participate in the Twitter blue subscription service of the platform. Calculations to be paid for verification since December.

Most old blue check holders found that this weekend verification signs were not lost, Rather, it was added with a new label reading: “This account was confirmed for subscribing to Twitter blue or because it was an old verified account.” When users click on the confirmation mark, the resulting language makes them uncertain whether the confirmed accounts are really remarkable individuals, or whether there are users who pay only to participate in twitter blue.

However, a high -profile account lost blue checks at the weekend: the main account of the New York Times, who said that he would not pay CNN for verification before.

A account that often interacts with Musk refers to a breast when he refuses to pay for verification this weekend. chirp “Oh, okay, then we’il take it out.” Musk later in The Times – the latest example of billionaires who hit journalists or media organizations – a series tweets This claimed that the scope of the exit was boring and “propaganda ..

Weekend movements are the latest example of turning into confusion for users on Twitter’s feature changes-and in this case, not only any user, but also for a long time for the platform. He also emphasizes how Musk’s decisions about the platform are more strangely than politics.

Although the New York Times lost blue checks, other accounts, such as art, travel and book content, have been confirmed. (It is not clear why the New York Times did not have a gold “organizations” confirmation sign, such as the accounts of other news organizations, including Associated Press and Washington Post.

Twitter dismissed most of the public relations personnel last autumn, did not respond immediately to the request for comments.

In a separate surprising movement, Twitter’s blue bird logo on the site was replaced by DogeCoin representing the crypto currency introduced by Musk on Monday. Dogecoin’s price increased by 20% on Monday.

Shortly after acquiring Twitter in the autumn last autumn, Musk threatens to receive “inheritance” blue approval signs from users who were confirmed under the old system of Twitter.

In early November, Twitter launched the option of payment of the Twitter Blue subscription service to buy blue checks. The program quickly paused after being uncomfortable by a wave of famous and corporate imitators and was restarted in December.

Twitter also offered a color -coded verification system with different color notes for companies and government organizations, but Musk continued to say that individual users should finally pay for blue checks.

In the days going to the blue control liquidation, Actor William Shatner and anti -bullying activist Monica Lewinksy, such as leading users, as the power users who have attracted attention to the site, pushed back against the idea that they should pay for a feature that was protected from identity.

The new label can facilitate people to deceive or mimic high -profile users by mudding the reason for verification of accounts. Original behavior experts, the separation of verification for paid users will reduce the number of boots on the site is not clear, Musk is a problem opened and closed last year, he said.

Musk had previously presented changes in Twitter’s verification system as a way to tanım equal to everyone ”.

“It should not be a different standard for celebrities,” he said in a tweet last week. The paid feature can also increase the income that can help Musk in the hook for significant debt after purchasing Twitter for $ 44 billion.

Musk also said last week, starting from April 15, and said that only confirmed accounts will be recommended besides the accounts that users have watched in their “for you” feeding.

Oliver Darcy from CNN contributed to this report.