According to the Verge, Twitter is going forward with its unverification plan. The date is April 1st, which will be next week. When Mastodon reblogs this, this should be the case.
I still think that people will be able to impersonate companies and people, but I’m still not convinced to pay $8 per account, as I have 4 of them and one I’m using to assist a company so it would be more.
Forms to sign up for personal and company blue check marks are available and linked within the article.
I’d love to see more about what Twitter will do to prevent impersonations. The article states that you must be 90 days old, must not have changed your account profile, name and picture for a period of time and I would add that you should not have a bot running the account.
It doesn’t talk about accounts that bots run. They could just hold the bot for the period now talked about, then pay for the service and turn the bot loose for Spam, impersonation or whatever else they want to do.
This is going to get interesting.
Full Ars Technica article: Twitter to un-verify people who don’t pay $8/month starting on April Fools’ Day.
Article was written yesterday, so should be still fresh.
This goes in to the interesting department for sure as Twitter’s drama continues.
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