Elon Musk stated on Friday that the anticipated launch date for Twitter Blue, the company’s premium subscription service for verification, is December 2.

Elon Musk said in a tweet that Twitter will offer a gold check mark for companies, a grey check mark for the government, and a blue check mark for people (famous or not). Prior to giving the coveted ticks, all verified accounts would be manually authenticated in the meantime, he added.

On December 2, Twitter was “tentatively” deploying its verification service, said to Musk in a response to a Twitter user while apologising for the delay in launch of Twitter blue. According to the Tesla and SpaceX owner, Twitter will employ different coloured tick marks to differ between three different types of accounts.

Musk in a tweet said that the Gold tick will be for companies, grey tick for the official government bodies and blue for individuals, celebrity or not. All these accounts will be checked before assigning them with a tick, Musk said, adding that it was painful but necessary.

Earlier, only verified accounts of public figures like journalists, famous people, politicians, and other individuals in the media have been given the coveted blue tick mark. But this month, Twitter launched a membership option that is available to everyone willing to pay in order to increase Twitter’s revenue as Musk battles to keep advertisers at bay.

This week, Musk had announced that the micro-blogging website was delaying the resumption of this membership service, deviating from his original preliminary schedule to get the service back on the platform by November 29. In another tweet, the tech billionaire said that he was holding off the relaunch of Twitter Blue until there was a high certainty of stopping parody accounts.

At the time, he stated, “Will probably use different colour ticks for organisations than people.”

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