tech Elon Musk says Twitter’s For You page will only recommend verified accounts

[Gwendolyn]

Twitter users will need a “verified account” to get recommended on the platform’s For You page starting on April 15th, according to a Monday evening tweet from CEO Elon Musk. Given that Twitter has promised to start dismantling the “legacy” verified system at the beginning of April, that appears to mean that you’ll have to be a company, government entity, or Twitter Blue subscriber if you want to pop into the feeds of people who don’t follow you.

 

Musk claims the move is “the only realistic way to address advanced AI bot swarms taking over.” Verified users are also going to become the only accounts that can vote in polls for the “same reason,” Musk says.

 

https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/27/23659351/elon-musk-twitter-for-you-verified-accounts-polls

[magazine]

[#Beautiful]

so it's pointless 

[QueenBeyoncé]

He’s an idiot 

[nadiamendell]

It will be easier to block people this way. Love it! 

[AmandaHP]

It just keeps getting worse 

[Big Bad Wolf]

[getBusy]

5 minutes ago, AmandaHP said:

It just keeps getting worse 

Literally, his only goal in life is to make it a little worse every day

[TaggedGalaxy]

[Lipgloss]

The excuse . It's clearly to try to generate profit. This may be the nail in the coffin though. 

[Blue Monday]

There’s no salvaging this website at this point I fear. Well, it had a good run

[Contessa]

thank god i never got into twitter. only using it for porn accounts to follow.

[The7thStranger]

Why do Twitter users put up with this? When Tumblr started acting this way, a significant portion of their user base up and left, even though there was no true alternative.