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On March 27, Elon Musk (Elon Musk) asked companies to pay a monthly certification fee of $1000 for their own brand's Twitter account, but this practice provoked a number of companies' plans.

Social media Twitter said it plans to remove the free certification mark from April 1. Individual users have to pay $8 a month for the new Blue V certification service. But for brand accounts registered on Twitter, the cost of certification is much higher. Under the new Twitter rules, companies and organizations such as government agencies need to obtain gold or gray certification marks through new certification services, which means companies have to pay $1000 a month for "Golden V certification". Twitter also said that users will have to pay an extra $50 a month to open an affiliated company account in the United States, which still does not include tax.

William William LeGate, co-founder of Pillow-Fight, a bedding company, said the $1000-a-month charge was "strange" and "pointless". He said his company would not consider a new certification service because it did not significantly increase Twitter user participation.

"starting from April 1, Blue V certification will be filled with all kinds of Internet sprinklers and fakes," Ligate said. "people will begin to associate blue V certification symbols with liars, sprinklers and Musk's brown-noser."

BitMEX, a cryptocurrency platform, said on Twitter: "Authentication is the cost you have to bear, not your users." BitMEX added that it is expensive to pay authentication fees for all users, but Twitter's approach is too "cold".

Music Business Worldwide, a music media site, said it had "reluctantly" signed up for a monthly subscription service with Twitter, and it was not clear what kind of service the site paid for.

G Fuel, an energy drink company that has been certified by Golden V on Twitter, tweeted: "We had a good time, ."

Industry insiders contacted Twitter for comment, but the company only automatically responded to a message and did not mention the inquiry.

Many Twitter users, including US Congressman Alexander Okassio-Cortez (Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez), have also criticized the practice. "the last time they tried to do this, someone pretended to be Eli Lilly and the company's share price plummeted," she wrote on Twitter. "

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