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Elon Musk reverses course, kills new 'official' designation for big-name tweeters

 The Twitter logo is seen on a mobile device in ths illustration photo in Warsaw Poland on 30 October 2022. Twitter is losing its most active users according to research done by Reuters. Despite the most impactful tweeters making up only 10 percent of the monthly users they are together responsible for 90 percent of all tweets and around half of the company is revenue. 







In his latest series of changes to Twitter is verification system company owner Elon Musk said he has already killed the new official designation Wednesday that had started rolling out for some of the platform is biggest names earlier in the day.


Twitter product executive Esther Crawford revealed details about the way the social network is new verification scheme would work Tuesday following the companys acquisition by Tesla and SpaceX CEO Musk in late October.


Some originally verified accounts would sport an official label Crawford said while any user who pays $7.99 per month for Twitter Blue the company iss subscription product would sport a blue check mark. She did not specify what it took to get the official  status. afternoon those labels which appeared as gray check marks were gone.


In an audio meeting through Twitter Spaces with advertisers on Wednesday Musk said the official badge was simply another way of creating a two-class system and was not addressing the core problem.


Please note that Twitter will do lots of dumb things in coming months Musk wrote in a tweet. We will keep what works & change what does not.



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