New Twitter accounts won’t be able to buy Blue verification for 90 days
by Mitchell Clark from The Verge - All Posts on (#65YF4)
Want the check mark? You may have to wait. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter won't let accounts less than 90 days old sign up for its Blue subscription service when it relaunches (presumably on the 29th), according to an update to the About Twitter Blue page. This means that you won't be able to just create a new account and instantly get it verified, which could be a bid to cut down on scams and impersonator accounts like the ones that almost immediately plagued the service the first time the updated Blue launched.
The old program didn't have a set waiting period, according to an archive of the page provided by the Wayback Machine, but it did have a warning that Twitter accounts created on or after November 9, 2022, will be unable to subscribe to Twitter Blue at this time." While that restriction...