Unverified Twitter Users Lose Access To Poll Features

Billionaire and tech mogul, Elon Musk, is introducing new rules for his recently-acquired social media platform, Twitter.

Since he bought the digital town square in October 2022, the Tesla boss has been making several changes to the app, including firing half of its global workforce and introducing a subscription fee for users who want to be verified on the platform.

On Tuesday, Musk announced new changes to combat “advanced AI bot swarms taking over” the platform.

According to him, verified accounts will have exclusive access to be featured on the app’s ‘For you’ recommendation tab.

The ‘For You’ tab features tweets recommended by Twitter’s algorithm to users, by persons whom they may or may not be following.

“Starting April 15th, only verified accounts will be eligible to be in For You recommendations,” Musk tweeted.

“This is the only realistic way to address advanced AI bot swarms taking over. It is otherwise a hopeless losing battle.”

Musk further said that verified users can vote on polls created on the app. He however did not specify if non-verified persons can create polls or not.

Surprisingly, he stated that verified bot accounts will be allowed to remain on the app.

“It’s ok to have verified bot accounts if they follow terms of service and don’t impersonate a human,” he said.