The Twitter Verified program is scheduled to launch next week: Companies will receive a "Gold" status

Key points:

• Elon Musk announced on Twitter on Friday that the social media giant could launch its overdue Verified service next week.
• Depending on the account type, the same badge will be associated with a different colored tick.
• The company will have a "golden check," a "gray check" for government accounts, and an existing "blue check" for individuals, regardless of their celebrity status.
• Musk said that all verified accounts are "manually verified" before verification is enabled.

Classification

The new Twitter executive said the company will have a "golden check," a "gray check" for government accounts, and an existing "blue check" for individuals, regardless of their celebrity status.

Beyond that, Musk said that all verified accounts are "manually verified" before verification is enabled. The executive called the move "painful but necessary"

Musk further clarified:

“All verified individual humans will have same blue check, as boundary of what constitutes “notable” is otherwise too subjective. Individuals can have secondary tiny logo showing they belong to an org if verified as such by that org.“

For its part, the subscription service is Musk's attempt to find new revenue streams. Inequality Media co-founder Robert Reich explained today that Musk is "aggressively destroying" the things he buys by firing and firing company employees.

After calling the theory "interesting," Musk demanded $8 from Reich.

Earlier, Musk was forced to suspend the $8-a-month Blue service, which allowed anyone to pay for a blue verification tick subscription. The same was stopped after users abused the system by impersonating well-known figures and brands.

For its part, the company is currently dealing with a mass departure of employees. Hundreds of employees put down documents and said goodbye to the company last week due to the "extraordinarily difficult" environment for Musk.