Starting April 15, Twitter users will need a “verified account” to be on the platform’s “For You” page, according to a Monday evening tweet from CEO Elon Musk Get recommended.
Given that Twitter has promised to start dismantling the “legacy” verification system in early April, this seems to mean you have to be a company, government entity, or Twitter Blue subscriber to be able to pop up into someone who doesn’t follow you back flow. Musk clarified on Tuesday that accounts you already follow will also appear in “For You” “because you’ve explicitly asked for them.”
Musk claimed the move is “the only realistic way to solve the problem of advanced AI bot swarm takeover”. Verified users will also be the only accounts that can vote in polls for “the same reason,” Musk said. ‘ always becomes the enforced policy or function. Perhaps the biggest example is his promise from February that the company would start sharing ad revenue with Blue subscribers, which is still MIA nearly two months later. That same month, he also promised to open-source the company’s algorithm by March 5, but that has yet to materialize — though he now says it will happen by March 31, without acknowledging that he missed that deadline.
Musk has made similar promises in the past. Before he dropped the pretense of asking the community before making major changes to the service, he said Twitter only allowed Blue Subscribers to vote in policy polls. It’s kind of moot now that he doesn’t really do that anymore.
Updated March 28 at 3:57pm ET : Musk Say the accounts you follow will appear in For You.
