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Elon Musk announces gold, gray and blue badges for Twitter accounts

Twitter’s billionaire owner Elon Musk announced Friday that the platform would be launching differently colored badges to distinguish between accounts. “Gold check for companies, grey check for government, blue for individuals (celebrity or not) and all verified accounts will be manually authenticated before check activates.” Musk earlier proposed a subscription fee of $8 a month to allow users to obtain the blue check