Twitter is delaying the rollout of verification check marks to subscribers of its new $7.99 a month service until after Tuesday's midterm elections, the New York Times reported on Sunday.
Users and employees had raised concerns that Elon Musk's plan to give check marks to those who paid a monthly fee could be misused to sow discord.
The billionaire, who took over Twitter earlier this week, also announced forthcoming content formats like "long-form text to tweets" and longer video.
Elon Musk's Twitter is already backtracking on some layoffs by asking certain employees to stay on, according to Insider sources and Blind app users.

With Twitter in chaos, Mastodon is on fire

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In the week since Elon Musk took over Twitter, the number of people signing up for a small social network called Mastodon has surged.
The whirlwind week that Elon Musk took over Twitter began with sleepless nights for company engineers—and ended with half the staff getting the axe.
One user, who posted on the day the company sent staff a memo announcing layoffs, said employees were treated as a "labor robot".
Speaking with Insider, a Twitter employee said Elon Musk made the company "psychologically unsafe" ahead of mass layoffs.
Twitter's new owner Elon Musk has pledged the platform will not devolve into a "free-for-all hellscape," but experts warn that mass layoffs may deeply impair the social network's ability to curb misin
Elon Musk's decision to pull Twitter off the stock market allows him to make major changes quickly, but it also takes the company more heavily into debt, a risky choice for a money-losing business.
The discourse was never all that civil on Twitter. The loudest voices have often drowned out softer, more nuanced takes.
Twitter co-founder and former CEO Jack Dorsey on Saturday apologized to company staff for growing the social media giant "too quickly" a day after roughly half of the company's 7,500 employees were fi
Twitter has announced a subscription service for $7.99 a month that includes a blue check now given only to verified accounts as new owner Elon Musk works to overhaul the platform's verification syste
He may be good with rockets and electric cars, but don't turn to Elon Musk for public health predictions.
Pariss Chandler built a community for Black tech workers on Twitter that eventually became the foundation for her own recruitment company.
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