Verification To View Counts: Here’s Every Twitter Change Under Elon Musk

Verification To View Counts: Here’s Every Twitter Change Under Elon Musk

Share to Linkedin Since Elon Musk acquired Twitter in October, the social media platform has made many tweaks to the user experience, including an overhaul to the verification process and an emphasis on "freedom of speech." Elon Musk's Twitter page is displayed on a smartphone screen. (Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images) Since Elon Musk's highly publicized — and controversial — acquisition of Twitter in October, he's made a series of updates to the platform, often live-tweeting them along the way. Among the most notable changes is the overhaul to the verification process: Previously, blue checkmarks denoted public figures that the platform had independently verified, but now users can purchase a verified checkmark by subscribing to Twitter Blue for $8 per month. After declaring Twitter's new policy to be "freedom of speech" in which negative or hate tweets will be "deboosted," but not banned, Musk reinstated a number of accounts that were notably suspended, including Donald Trump, Jordan Peterson and Kathy Griffin (Musk reinstated Trump's account after conducting a poll on Twitter — 51. 8% of the 15 million respondents voted "yes" to return the former president's account). Each tweet now publicly displays how many views it has garnered, an update