The new verification system’s colours are now visible on Twitter.
On the microblogging site, multilateral organisations and government representatives may now be identified by the grey tick next to their names.

Some profiles have previously mentioned this new trend. The earlier blue-colored tick is still visible in certain politician profiles, indicating that it has not yet been fully implemented.

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Elon Musk, the company’s  CEO, used the microblogging website to herald the launch of its new verification system earlier this year.

“Sorry for the delay, we’re tentatively launching Verified on Friday next week.” he posted.

“Gold check for companies, grey check for government, blue for individuals (celebrity or not) and all verified accounts will be manually authenticated before check activates,” the SpaceX owner added.

He had earlier tweeted about the usage of different colours for different organisations and individuals but fleshed out the details just recently.

“All verified individual humans will have the same blue check, as the boundary of what constitutes ‘notable’ is otherwise too subjective,” he tweeted.

According to a report by The Verge, the microblogging platform’s ‘Twitter Blue’ subscriptions rolled out despite warnings from Twitter’s own trust and safety staff. Soon afterwards, numerous ‘verified’ accounts began to impersonate well-known personalities or brands.

The controversy started when a phoney Nintendo account released an image of the well-known video game character Mario giving the Twitter bird the middle finger.

Another fake Twitter account for the pharmaceutical corporation “Eli Lilly” has also surfaced. The fact that insulin was now free has been tweeted.

The Verge said that this drove many advertisers away from the platform. Musk then discontinued the 7.99 USD service a few days after it was introduced.

Any account that attempted to mimic someone else would be disabled unless its owner proclaimed it to be a parody account, according to a tweet from Musk who had taken the situation into his own hands.

Regarding the existing approach of multi-colored verification, Musk described it as “painful, but necessary.”

(Inputs from ANI)