Under the new model, all customers who subscribe for US$8 (RM37) a month will be given verified accounts.
Previously, celebrities, politicians, journalists and other public figures were required to provide proof of identification before receiving the blue-tick verification badge. Under the new model, all customers who subscribe for US$8 a month will be given verified accounts.
Musk also threatened to crack down on fake accounts and parody accounts, saying that anyone who operates a profile under another person’s name and does not mark it as a parody is to be banned without warning. One user pretending to be LeBron James, for example, tweeted Wednesday that the basketball star was planning to leave the Los Angeles Lakers, causing a stir before the account @KINGJamez, differing only slightly from LeBron's official account name @KingJames, was eventually blocked.Twitter support tweeted that such cases are being “aggressively” pursued.
The former president has been banned from Twitter since January 2021 after making kind comments about his supporters storming the Capitol in Washington.
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