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Since Musk, the world's richest man, has taken over Twitter, he has had frequent topical actions. In addition to offering an $8 real-name authentication Twitter Blue subscription plan, rectifying internal personnel, and amnesty to previously blocked and disabled accounts, now It is to focus on launching a new version of the "authentication" measure for accounts representing different types of accounts on the Twitter platform, and use different tick colors as identification, and it will be as soon as next week, when December ushers in. , and began to implement a trial run.

According to foreign media Tech Crunch, Musk recently tweeted that before the new revision of the certification system is officially launched, it will be reviewed through a manual certification mechanism, and the new policy measures of the "multi-color certification system" will be implemented and implemented on the Twitter platform. According to different account types, different color tick marks will be given for identification and differentiation.

For example: enterprise accounts can get a "gold tick" after obtaining real-name verification and certification, and government organization accounts can get a "gray tick".

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Twitter accounts of enterprises, government organizations, etc. that have been verified before must be manually verified by the manual review mechanism again.

As for enterprise accounts and government organization accounts, at that time, whether to apply for a tick mark for real-name authentication will require an additional fee, the actual details and process are still unclear.

With regard to the "multi-color authentication" measure that Twitter will introduce, foreign media said, whether the manual authentication measure that will be put on trial next week for "enterprise" and "government organization" accounts can really effectively prevent various exploits Controversial issues such as fake accounts or spam and phishing scams have just gone through organizational team reorganization and drastic layoffs. The adoption of "manual authentication" will bring a huge wave under the circumstances of limited existing internal staff. pressure.

In addition, after Musk took over, he originally planned to pay $8 (approximately NT$257) to provide a Twitter user account for real-name authentication of the "Twitter Blue" subscription plan, which was briefly launched in November. Later, due to chaotic problems such as obtaining Blue Gougou with a paid fake account, phishing scams pretending to be official Twitter to send verification letters, etc., I was forced to temporarily call the card.

At that time, Musk once announced to the outside world that after the internal planning of a solution that can prevent fake accounts, it will be implemented at a later date.

For all Twitter users to verify that the account is the "Twitter Blue" blue tick certification mark, last week, Twitter released the latest policy clauses stating that from now on the newly created account on Twitter, from the account registered After 90 days from the creation date, you can further purchase the subscription service of the Twitter Blue Tickmark certification mark.

A Twitter user who has obtained a blue check mark means that the account has been authenticated. That is to say, whether it is an ordinary person or a famous person, after obtaining real-name authentication in the future, there will basically be at least a blue check mark. chapter.

If the account is also used as an enterprise or government organization, there may be more than two tick marks in different colors.