Twitter has been rolling out new features under Tesla CEO Elon Musk, one of them being the ability to sign up for Twitter Blue and receive a checkmark after paying $8 a month.
However, there’s been many issues with this feature, resulting in the social media platform pausing users from subscribing after many abused it by signing up and parodying companies.
WSB radio host Erick Erickson also noted another bug in Twitter Blue that’s a pain to deal with: It was easy for him to see “if someone following or citing me was a reporter.”
“The one downside of the blue check for everyone paying is that it used to be easy to generally determine if someone following or citing me was a reporter, etc.” Erickson tweeted on Monday. “Now it’s just somebody who paid the money.”
Erickson works in the news media, so having verified information to use on his show is crucial and perhaps others in the industry feel the same. Now they’ll have to double or even triple-check the facts to ensure they’re not being duped.
Eduardo Razo is the Assistant Content Editor for BNM, which includes writing daily news stories on the news media industry. He can be found on Twitter @eddierazo_ or you can reach him by email at eddie1991razo@gmail.com.
