White House won't pay for Blue verification on Twitter

Per Axios

Since Elon Musk's acquisition of Twitter for $44 billion, the new CEO has made massive changes to the platform. One is the decision to charge users for the Blue verification, meaning former verified individuals would need to pay to keep their verification.

Now, the White House has decided whether or not they would pay for their staffer's Twitter verification, and their answer was no.

The White House follows other official businesses and organizations that have decided that they do not want to pay for the Blue verification on Twitter. Their decision was learned by Axios through an email they were able to obtain.

Rob Flaherty, the Director of Digital Strategy at the White House, gave the news to staffers through the email.

Flaherty: "It is our understanding that Twitter Blue does not provide person-level verification as a service. Thus, a blue check mark will now simply serve as a verification that the account is a paid user,"

Specifically, it was noted that the White House wouldn't pay nor reimburse staff that decided to purchase Twitter Blue. The statements implied that getting Twitter Blue was purely up to the staff.

Flaherty: "Twitter’s enterprise service, Verification for Organization, does appear to provide organization-association verification. There are ongoing trials for the program that we are monitoring, but we will not enroll in it,"

Recently, Elon Musk made the decision to make Twitter's algorithm open-source by March 31, which he did. Due to this, public users could take a look at the code and give their take on how it performed and if it was fair.

A Senior Developer Advocate at Vercel, Steven Tey, found multiple points on Twitter, with one suggesting that Twitter Blue subscribers got a boost in the algorithm. To this, Musk said that he would offer a $1 million bounty to the person that found "botnets" source.

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