Syed Imran Haider 
Twitter has reportedly considered finalizing an organizational verification plan valued at less than a $1,000 monthly fee. Elon Musk wrote on Twitter, saying the company has begun working on an economic program to facilitate small businesses. He did not provide any detail regarding the potential cost of such a cheaper organizational verification plan.
Gmail also introduced Blue verified checks to see the authenticity of brands involved in emailing users last month. According to Elon Musk, Twitter is working to discover an innovative onboarding process to ensure only those organizations without fraudulent or criminal records should apply for the verification. The plan will comprise a lower-cost tier for small setups, but Twitter needs to supervise the process of organization onboarding to prevent fraudulent activities.
The $1000 Monthly Fee
Twitter’s owner did not give any idea of the cost of the organization verification plan, eligible companies, or the time for the rollout of the new tier.
Until now, the company requires businesses to pay $1000 a month to obtain a golden checkmark for verification and an extra $50 a month for every affiliated account they have on Twitter. Smaller organizations might find this amount a significant one to maintain their presence on the social network.
It is worth mentioning that Twitter has been persuading organizations to choose paid verification for a while. In March 2023, it also eliminated legacy checkmarks, leading several businesses to lose their verification status. Simultaneously, Twitter emailed numerous business accounts stating they would need to purchase Twitter Verified or Twitter Blue plans to continue advertising on the platform.
Inactive User Accounts
Twitter also purged old & inactive accounts and freed up desired usernames. The recent tweets by Elon Musk reveal while the company has promised to rotate more usernames, it has not made any significant effort to do it. Elon Musk has an inactive account policy in place suggesting Twitter’s users sign in to their accounts every thirty days to prevent them from being permanently deleted by the company.
Twitter’s owner says the firm is conservative in removing old, inactive accounts. These accounts had no activity performed for years, making the company purge them. He says this action may be more visible on those long-term Twitter accounts with a large following during the company’s early days as a social media network.
Musk’s follow-up tweet also clarified that many usernames could become accessible after this action. He did not specify how users can acquire those usernames besides creating a new account with a specific name.
In December last year, Elon Musk also said the company would soon free the namespace of over 1.5 billion Twitter accounts, as it will remove inactive accounts as a part of that effort.
Elon Musk keeps tweeting many things regarding Twitter’s features and policies, but not everything comes to pass in his suggested time frame. Over the last months, the social network mulled over offering users desired usernames using online auctions to make extra money. It is vague if that earning plan is still functional.
