After asserting the relaunch of Twitter Blue over the weekend, Twitter updated its terms to require cellphone quantity verification for customers who need to buy the subscription. The corporate mentioned that in case you haven’t verified your phone number, you can be prompted to take action whereas shopping for the subscription plan.
What’s extra, the corporate might also stop customers who’ve modified their deal with (username), show identify or profile image throughout the final seven days from buying the Twitter Blue subscription.
“Twitter accounts that haven’t been lively throughout the final 30 days or which have modified their profile picture, show identify, or username (aka @deal with) throughout the earlier seven days might also be unable to enroll. Subscribers can even want a verified cellphone quantity,” the corporate’s up to date phrases said.
That is along with the earlier requirement that newly created accounts can’t join Twitter Blue for 90 days. Twitter mentioned that people who subscribe to the Twitter Blue plan might not see the checkmark instantly because it plans to examine if the account doesn’t violate its requirements for verification. Other than the above-mentioned situations, these necessities say that the account shouldn’t present “indicators of being deceptive or misleading” and shouldn’t have interaction in “platform manipulation and spam.”
“All Twitter Blue options shall be out there instantly besides the blue checkmark, which can take time to seem to make sure evaluate of subscribed accounts meets all necessities,” Twitter mentioned on the FAQ web page for Twitter Blue.
Final month, Musk talked about that each one accounts present process verification will be manually verified — which was precisely the method Twitter adopted with legacy verification.
All these steps are geared toward stopping impersonation and spam. When Elon Musk’s model of Twitter Blue with a verification mark first launched in November, a ton of accounts started to ape brands, celebrities and athletes. The mayhem attributable to that pressured Musk to pause this system till there have been steps in place to forestall that from taking place once more.
