"Punting relaunch of
The tweet received a number of questions from users, with the
One user asked, "So are legacy checkmarks for non-corporate/government officials going away?"
To this Musk said, "All unpaid legacy Blue checkmarks will be removed in a few months."
Another user asked whether people can "change their names once they verify". The multi-billionaire's response was 'With the new release, changing your verified name will cause loss of checkmark until your name is confirmed by Twitter to meet Terms of Service."
According to a report by The Verge, Twitter pulled off the service, which cost 7.99 USD for a verified 'blue check mark', in a matter of days after its release. This drastic decision was taken due to a sharp rise in fake verified accounts on the platform.
The chaos began with a fake Nintendo account which posted the image of the well-known game character Mario raising a middle finger at the Twitter bird. Meanwhile, another fake Twitter account emerged for 'Eli Lilly', the pharmaceutical company. It had tweeted that insulin had become free.
The SpaceX owner took the matter into his own hands and tweeted that any account that tried to impersonate someone else would be disabled unless its user declared it as a parody account.
Twitter had originally launched a service for its iOS users that allowed them to get a blue verification tick on their profiles.
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