Account verification
Twitter makes new attempt for paid subscription
After several failed attempts, Twitter is making another attempt to introduce a paid subscription for users. The Twitter Blue offer will start on Monday, as Twitter announced on Saturday.
After several failed attempts, Twitter is making another attempt to introduce a paid subscription for users.
With this, users are asked to check out for the verification of their user account by the white tick in a blue circle. The tick, which indicates that a user account has been verified by Twitter, was previously free and was awarded to politicians, celebrities, journalists and organizations. In future, a paid subscription will be a prerequisite for the coveted verification tick on a user account.
Twitter Blue is said to be significantly more expensive for iPhone users: «We’re relaunching @TwitterBlue on Monday – subscribe on the web for $8/month or on (Apple’s) iOS for $11/month, and get access to exclusive features including the blue one Check mark,” the company tweeted.
After buying Twitter in October, new owner and billionaire Elon Musk said he wanted to expand the company’s revenue streams beyond and develop new paid offerings.
New version, new features
A paid subscription version of Twitter Blue, launched in November, was quickly shut down due to the emergence of many fake accounts using users pretending to be celebrities or businesses.
With the new version, accounts seeking a tick will continue to be checked by Twitter, the company said. In addition, subscribers should enjoy other benefits, such as significantly less , a function for editing tweets following they are published and the option to download videos in better quality.
At the beginning of November, Musk declared that the previous system for assigning verification ticks was “bullshit” and made the relaunch of Twitter Blue a priority. However, this was postponed several times.
Musk took over Twitter for $44 billion at the end of October and immediately fired the top floor. A week later, he fired around half of the 7,500 employees. Musk’s restructuring of Twitter is extremely chaotic. (SDA)
