Elon Musk continues to make changes at Twitter now that he's the social media company's new overlord. Since taking over, Musk has introduced several drastic and controversial new features to the platform. The most recent change are the gold, gray, and blue badges.
The new color-coded Twitter badges will make it easier to distinguish accounts. According to Musk, Gold is for companies while Grey is for government accounts. Meanwhile, Blue is for verified individuals, regardless if they're popular or not. Musk added that the platform will "manually" authenticate each verified account before it gets a badge.
Musk previously proposed a paid subscription model where users pay a monthly fee to get a blue "verified" badge. However, it didn't take long for trolls to take advantage of this. The platform was immediately full of fake accounts masquerading as Nintendo, among others.
Musk later took down the feature and postponed its re-release to the 29th of November and December 2.
