Elon Musk's New Breakthrough, Planning To Change How To Verify Twitter Accounts And Buy Vine?

Elon Musk made a new breakthrough on Twitter. (photo: screenshot)

JAKARTA - Twitter will revise its user account verification process. This was confirmed by Elon Musk, the new owner of Twitter in a tweet on Sunday, October 30, two days after he took over one of the most influential social media platforms in the world.

"The whole verification process is being changed right now," Musk said in a tweet without providing further details.

Technology Bulletin Platformer reported last week that Twitter is also considering charging a blue tick that verifies the identity of its account holder. It quotes two people familiar with the matter.

Users will also have to subscribe to Twitter Blue for $4.99 per month or lose their "verified" badge if the project moves forward.

The Tesla Inc CEO has yet to make a final decision and the project could still be scrapped but according to Platformer it is likely that verification will be part of Twitter Blue.

Separately, The Verge reported on Sunday, October 30, that Twitter will increase the subscription price for Twitter Blue, which also verifies users, from $4.99 per month to $19.99 per month, citing internal correspondence seen by they.

Twitter Blue launched in June last year as the platform's first subscription service, offering "exclusive access to premium features" on a monthly subscription basis including the option to edit tweets.

The feature to edit tweets was also available earlier this month after Musk launched a Twitter poll in April asking his millions of followers if they wanted an edit button. More than 70% answered, yes.

Musk has also requested that logged-out users visiting the Twitter site be redirected to an Explore page showing trending tweets, according to another separate report from The Verge last week, citing employees familiar with the matter.

Being Back Vine

In addition, Musk also conducted a new poll on Monday, October 31 at 10.30 a.m. Western Indonesian Time (WIB), about his plans to buy Vine, a short video social media platform.

Vine itself is a video application created in June 2012 and acquired by Twitter in October 2012.

This service allows users to record and edit videos as long as six seconds and can be uploaded directly to the social networking site Vine, as well as several other sites such as Facebook and Twitter. The Vine app can be used to browse videos created by other users with several categories available.

However, since 2017 Vine has been shut down by Twitter. Vine was closed because it failed to compete with other short video sharing apps, such as Facebook Live, Instagram Stories, TikTok, and YouTube.

The plan to revive Vine received rave reviews because 72 percent agreed, Twitter revived the app. This poll was immediately flooded with around 830 thousand accounts to participate in just one hour after its release.