An update to the About Twitter Blue page shows accounts less than 90 days old won't be able to sign up when the service relaunch, presumably on November 29
Twitter won't let accounts less than 90 days old sign up for its Blue subscription service when it relaunches (presumably on the 29th) …
The VergeMitchell Clark
Context & Ripple Effects
Twitter is adding an account-age gate as it prepares to restart Blue after pausing the service over fake verified accounts. The rule turns the relaunch from a simple return of paid verification into a constrained rollout aimed at preventing freshly created accounts from buying immediate status.
The urgency is visible in the initial launch's scale: an internal log showed more than 140,000 early Blue signups before the pause. The 90-day threshold targets the speed with which paid verification could be used, while limiting access for legitimate newer users as well.
First-order effects
Twitter Blue will deny signup to accounts younger than 90 days at relaunch, requiring new legitimate users to wait before purchasing the subscription.
Actors seeking to impersonate others or exploit paid verification cannot use newly created accounts to obtain Blue immediately.
Second-order effects
Impersonators must establish accounts well in advance, raising the time cost of the rapid-abuse pattern that prompted the earlier signup pause.
Twitter narrows Blue's near-term pool of eligible buyers, trading some subscription acquisition for a more controlled verification rollout.
Third-order effects
If paid verification remains part of Twitter's model, account-history requirements and similar eligibility controls become core product rules rather than optional moderation measures.
The episode points to a paid identity system in which platform trust signals depend on behavioral history as well as payment, shifting verification away from a purely transactional feature.
The trend: Social platforms are pairing paid identity features with account-age and trust gates to limit the abuse created when status can be purchased instantly.
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