Shulou(Shulou.com)11/24 Report--

Beijing time on the morning of December 12, it is reported that the Twitter Blue V certification fee service was suspended for several weeks because someone pretended to be a celebrity or brand, but now it has been back online.

After several delays, Twitter announced on its official blog that Twitter Blue V certification had been restored. Users pay $8 a month for a blue authentication logo with their own name and permission to modify tweets.

Twitter said it would "take a series of other measures to detect and avoid impersonation", including requiring users to verify the mobile phone number bound to the account. When a user modifies a user name or photo, the system also temporarily cancels its authentication logo "until the change is approved by Twitter".

"illegal accounts may be suspended and non-refundable," the blog wrote. "

Before billionaire ElonMusk privatised Twitter at the end of October, the company used blue logos to authenticate users to distinguish celebrities, musicians, journalists and other celebrities who were easily impersonated. But the specific verification process is not clear, Musk also criticized this model as the "lord and tenant system."

However, after the launch of the Twitter Blue V certification payment verification system, there have been a large number of cases of impersonating celebrities-many users have changed their names to famous brands or people after verifying their accounts. Someone even pretended to be Musk himself. As a result, Twitter Blue V certification was suspended for a period of time to study the solution.

Musk didn't forget to criticize Apple when he re-launched the Twitter Blue V certification. If users buy Twitter Blue V certification through Apple's iOS Twitter app, they will have to pay $11 a month, and the extra fee comes from Apple's in-app purchase commission. Musk has expressed dissatisfaction with this many times before, calling it a "substantial global Internet tax".

Musk tweeted on Monday that non-Twitter Blue V certified paying users would lose their certification logo "within a few months". He has made similar statements before.

Twitter said it would also introduce authentication logos in different colors, including gold logos for corporate accounts and gray logos for political accounts.

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