Apr 06, 2023 11:09:00

Clearly less than 3% of the celebrity accounts that owned Twitter's blue check mark joined Twitter Blue

After

Elon Musk bought Twitter , he announced the new Twitter Blue , making the blue checkmark (verified badge) that appears next to the account name available for purchase by anyone. It was clear that after April 1, 2023, accounts that did not subscribe to Twitter Blue will be stripped of the authenticated badge, but the rate of Twitter Blue subscriptions for accounts that had acquired an authenticated badge so far Studies have shown that the is very low.

Update (2 April 2023) by travisbrown Pull Request #10 travisbrown/blue GitHub
https://github.com/travisbrown/blue/pull/10

Twitter failed to scare legacy verified accounts into paying for Twitter Blue | Mashable
https://mashable.com/article/twitter-legacy-verified-account-twitter-blue-subscribers

Twitter has introduced verified badges to show the authenticity of accounts used by celebrities. At first, the old-fashioned authenticated badge could only be attached to accounts that were called by Twitter, and although it became a request system from the middle, it is not possible to acquire the authenticated badge unless you have a certain level of name recognition. was.

But after Musk bought Twitter, Twitter made the verified badge available for anyone to purchase. Along with this, Twitter announced that it would remove the authenticated badge from the account that had acquired the authenticated badge by the old method, that is, the official Twitter account of the celebrity.

Twitter Blue will be available worldwide and from April 1, the blue check mark will be removed from authenticated accounts that have not joined Twitter Blue - GIGAZINE

Since the new Twitter Blue was announced in November 2022, programmers Travis Brown and Cathy Ho have independently investigated Twitter Blue subscribers and accounts with verified badges, and published the details in a GitHub repository. summarized above.

GitHub - travisbrown/blue: Twitter Blue data
https://github.com/travisbrown/blue

Mr. Brown's research project responded to a Washington Post report that ``about 150,000 users joined Twitter Blue'' in the first few days after the new Twitter Blue appeared, ``145,454 people were identified. We succeeded in doing so, ”he appeals that he has succeeded in identifying many Twitter Blue subscriber accounts.

The project uses a tool for scraping Twitter profiles created by a project called Hassreden-Tracker backed by the Prototype Fund in 2022. Furthermore, it seems that Twitter API is used to search for Twitter Blue accounts in order to include `` Twitter accounts that use languages other than English '' that cannot be tracked by the Hassreden-Tracker tool.

As of April 2, 2023, information about Twitter Blue subscription accounts identified by Brown's research project is as follows:

Total number of Twitter Blue subscribers: 498,117
Number of followers of Twitter Blue account: 0 followers (2585), less than 100 followers (88,085: 17.7%), less than 1000 followers (244,562: 49.1%)
Business verified Twitter Blue accounts: 2115 (8.1%)
Government-certified Twitter Blue accounts: 576 (8.4%)
Twitter Blue subscribers with the old verified badge: 12,238 (3.2%)

It is said that about 420,000 accounts have acquired a verified badge through the old process as a celebrity Twitter account, and only a few accounts are trying to join Twitter Blue and maintain a verified badge. It seems that it is 12,305 cases (2.9%).

In addition, celebrities who had been authenticated through the old process did not seem to be particularly concerned about the authenticated badge being removed on Twitter, and many celebrities and companies refused to join Twitter Blue. I'm here.

Overseas celebrities and the White House refuse to charge Twitter Blue for authenticated badges, pointing out that there is no longer any meaning to have authenticated badges - GIGAZINE