Owner Elon Musk has announced that Twitter will roll out gold and gray verification checkmarks next week when it restarts the delayed blue tick service.
The billionaire chief executive called the move “painful but necessary” in a post on the social media platform.
All verified accounts will be manually verified before being ticked for activation, Mr. Musk said.
“Golden checks for corporations, gray checks for governments, blue checks for individuals (celebrity or not). Painful, but necessary,” he wrote.
In another tweet, Mr. Musk said: “Individuals can have a secondary little badge to show they belong to an organization, if verified by that organization.”
He added that a longer explanation would be provided next week.
Confronted with soaring fake accounts, the social media platform suspended its recently announced $8 blue tick subscription service and said it would relaunch on November 29.
The blue check mark was previously reserved for verified accounts of politicians, celebrities, journalists, and other public figures.
Details of the revised authentication scheme came after Mr Musk announced he would ‘Amnesty’ granted to suspended Twitter accountsprompting warnings about an increase in harassment, hate speech and misinformation.
The tycoon has asked his more than 118 million followers to vote on reinstating accounts that have not “broken the law or engaged in egregious spam”.
The vote in favor was 72%.
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