Twitter verified have always been a recurring topic of conversation among social media fans. Over the years, we have seen verification programs activated, deactivated, reactivated, frozen again, etc., and the lack of transparency in the system of granting them, which the social network itself acknowledged some time ago, has never worked in its favor. And even so, there are many users who wanted to get it, because it somehow gives the bird a certain status on the social network. I considered going for it myself at some point, but I admit that my irregularity in Twitter usage has never worked in my favor.

Be that as it may, over the last few days and after Elon Musk landed on Twitter, verified user badges have become one of the trending topics (in an expression typical of the social network) on everyone’s lips. And it is that you already know that one of the income improvement plans is underway perform verifications exclusively associated with Twitter Blue, the method of payment for the service. His original plan was to impose a monthly fee of $20, but after the enormous amount of criticism the measure’s progress received, he settled on a more moderate price of eight dollars a month.

The problem (well, actually one of many) is that verified accounts today have a huge reach, that is, they are available in a large part of the world. However, Twitter Blue can only be closed in Australia, Canada, the United States and New Zealand, which is why many verifiers from other regions, whether or not they are interested in signing up for Twitter Blue, are wondering what will happen to their verified badges when the new model is adopted. Common sense leads us to think that they should keep the badges, at least until they get Twitter Blue, but of course, believing that common sense will prevail is paradoxically foolish.

I hope less than a month

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 5, 2022

Now it may not be necessary to wait too long to solve this problem. And it is, before the question about How long will it take for Twitter Blue to reach India?Elon Musk I answered «I hope less than a month«thereby giving another example of his undoubtedly more than ambitious plan to improve the monetization of the social network, a problem that must undoubtedly lie in subtracting hours of sleep, as we already reported a few days ago.

I personally think so error connecting verified with monthly fee payment. It is true that, as I indicated at the outset, transparency has been lacking for many years and has probably been arbitrarily admitted on more than one occasion. However, with a few exceptions, it tends to be an element that adds value, both for recognizing notable people in their field and for quickly identifying fake accounts that mimic those of established personalities.

However, Musk steps on the gas on global deployment Twitter Blue looks like a success to me. I’ve never understood, and I’ve said this on previous occasions, that its geographic scope continues to be so limited now that it’s been over a year since its launch. Perhaps Musk’s plan is too ambitious, but this very point strikes me as a logical response to the previous board’s flaw in this sense.