Twitter owner Elon Musk announced that the social media giant will revise its user verification process, days after Musk officially became owner of the social media company.
Elon Musk has reportedly given Twitter employees their first major task — introducing a $20 per month subscription for users to gain a verification badge by November 7 or leave the company.
With Elon in charge, Twitter is planning to boost the price of its Blue subscription from $5 to $20 per month and make it mandatory for verified users..
Twitter’s new owner Elon Musk is defending a plan to make people pay to hold a coveted blue badge that verifies a user’s authenticity and authority on the social media platform.
New Twitter head Elon Musk said Tuesday the site will charge $8 per month to verify users' accounts, arguing the plan would solve the platform's issues
Elon Musk outlined his new plan for an $8 a month blue check mark verification for Twitter after critics complained that $20 a month was too steep a price to pay.
On Tuesday, Musk outlined the Twitter verification plan in a series of tweets, following pushback over reports that Twitter would start charging a fee of $20 a month.
After days of speculation over whether new “Chief Twit” Elon Musk would charge $20 to be verified on Twitter, Musk announced a revised Twitter Blue program via — of course — Twitter. Calling the existing system of verification with blue checkmarks “bullshit,” Musk shared the key details.
Elon Musk, the new owner of Twitter, responded to author Stephen King following criticism over reports that the price for verification would be $20 a month.
Musk said blue-check subscribers would get priority in replies, mentions and search, and be able to post longer videos and audios, while dealing with half as many ads.
Musk appeared to decide on the price in a bizarre exchange with horror fiction author Stephen King after the writer complained about possibly having to pay $20 a month to keep his checkmark.
Charging users $8 a month to verify their accounts is unlikely to cover much of the debt service costs resulting from Elon Musk’s $44 billion acquisition of the social media company. It also risks driving away the influencers the platform needs most.
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