Twitter Blue: Here’s why Twitter Blue verification process may not be fixed yet | – Times of India

Elon Musk first launched the new Twitter Blue subscription in November and hours after rolling out the service, the platform saw a surge in fake accounts getting blue check marks. Several users started impersonating noted personalities which forced the company to pause the subscription. Twitter then released the service a month later with a new set of rules for users to get the ‘coveted’ blue check mark.
The social media company also announced a new process for verification where Twitter will review Twitter Blue subscribed accounts and provide authentications if it meets the requirements.
Twitter’s new verification process
Musk said Twitter would release a new-and-improved version of the Blue subscription wherein “all verified accounts will be manually authenticated” before they get the check mark. However, it seems that the ‘fixed’ verification system is not working as it is intended to.

A reporter from The Washington Post created an account impersonating US Senator Ed Markey and got the blue check mark. Elon Musk said he would fix Twitter’s problem with impostors. “The blue check mark on my fake US senator suggests he still has a long way to go,” the reporter said.
He noted that it was the second time he was able to impersonate the senator and only needed “an iPhone and a credit card to pay for Blue.” The reporter says that he thought Twitter would ask for some ID for verification but it did not and he was given a blue check mark after seven days.
Gadgets Now Times of India could not independently verify the reporter’s claims because Twitter Blue is not available in India yet.

Musk told to fix Twitter
In a previous incident when the same reporter impersonated Markey, the US Senator called out Musk and sought an explanation on how the reporter was able to create a verified account impersonating him and how Twitter is working “to prevent it from happening again.”
At that time, Musk joked that perhaps the senator’s “real account sounds like a parody?” and “And why does your pp have a mask!?”
In response, the senator advised the Twitter boss to stop “picking fights online” and warned him to fix his companies “Or Congress will.”