Elon Musk says Twitter’s For You page will only recommend verified accounts
by Mitchell Clark from The Verge - All Posts on (#6A80G)
Illustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Photo: Getty Images Twitter users will need a verified account" to get recommended on the platform's For You page starting on April 15th, according to a Monday evening tweet from CEO Elon Musk. Given that Twitter has promised to start dismantling the legacy" verified system at the beginning of April, that appears to mean that you'll have to be a company, government entity, or Twitter Blue subscriber if you want to pop into the feeds of people who don't follow you.
Musk claims the move is the only realistic way to address advanced AI bot swarms taking over." Verified users are also going to become the only accounts that can vote in polls for the same reason," Musk says.
It's worth taking this announcement with a big grain of salt, as Musk's tweets...