Dimitri Pavlounis, director of research at CIVIX, an organization that teaches civic and digital literacy, said one of the most urgent concerns for his organization is the confusion stemming from changes to the verification system.Previously, a blue checkmark on a Twitter account indicated that it had been verified by Twitter as the person it claimed to be.
With Musk announcing possible new ideas and directions for the platform daily on his Twitter, Oksana Kishchuk, director of strategy and Insights at Abacus Data, said MPs and governments may want to take a “wait and see” approach when it comes to how they may need to adapt their use of Twitter. Kishchuk noted this is a phenomenon that regularly occurs with social media platforms, such as with the growth of TikTok and decline of Facebook in recent years, and said different generations will often gravitate towards different platforms.
Wendy Chun, a professor who leads the Digital Democracies Institute at Simon Fraser University, also noted that new platforms are constantly emerging.