Twitter pauses paid verifications after users abuse service to impersonate brands and people - CNBC

Twitter appears to person paused its $7.99/month Blue Blue subscription service, which allowed radical to wage for a verification cheque mark, aft users were abusing it to impersonate brands and celebrated people

Twitter launched the work earlier this week successful its iPhone app, allowing users to bargain a checkmark that had antecedently been utilized to amusement that an relationship was verified oregon official. As of Friday, the iPhone app nary longer shows an enactment to motion up for Twitter Blue.

The speedy suspension of the work suggests that, astatine slightest currently, Musk's large program to make caller gross from users isn't moving arsenic planned.

The paid subscription work led to a plethora of pranksters creating imposter accounts connected Twitter. It near the level adjacent much ripe for misinformation, and galore checkmarks were utilized to impersonate brands with unflattering messages. That, too, presents a large occupation for advertisers, immoderate of which person already paused spending connected the platform.

Some users who already paid for the service accidental their paid-for bluish checkmark has disappeared from their account.

A Twitter spokesperson was not instantly disposable for comment. Elon Musk was not instantly disposable to comment.