Twitter Reportedly Plans to Charge $20 a Month for Verified Accounts

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Twitter Reportedly Plans to Charge $20 a Month for Verified Accounts​

Reports state Twitter is considering a $20 monthly subscription for blue checkmarks.

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Oct. 30, 2022 9:31 p.m. PT

Twitter users with a coveted blue verified check mark on their accounts may soon find themselves having to pay to preserve that status.

Twitter executives are "strongly considering" requiring that those with the free check mark on their profile pay $5 each month for a Twitter Blue subscription or lose their badge, Platformer's Casey Newton reported Sunday afternoon. Executives have spent the weekend talking about the idea and making plans about the measure, sources told Newton.

A report from The Verge, however, suggested it could cost more than that. That report states that Twitter is planning to charge $20 for a new Twitter Blue subscription, and that blue checkmarks will be lost to users if they don't pay up. According to the report, users will be given 90 days to subscribe before losing their blue tick. Employees working on the project have apparently been given until Nov. 7 to implement the changes.

The blue check mark was created to let people know that a given Twitter account is the genuine article. To qualify, accounts must be "notable, authentic and active." That includes accounts of government officials; people representing prominent brands; news organizations and journalists; activists; celebrities; and athletes.

They're also fairly rare, so are seen by some as a status symbol. In 2021, only 360,000 accounts, or 0.2% of Twitter's monetizable daily active users, were verified. Still, such a requirement could provide the company with a new revenue stream at a time when it's reportedly getting ready for layoffs under the new ownership of Elon Musk.

Twitter Blue is a subscription service that offers several premium perks, including allowing you to undo a tweet, read news ad-free, edit a published tweet, organize your bookmarks into folders, pin conversations in your DMs and upload videos up to 10 minutes long. When it launched in 2021, the service cost $3, but the month cost went up in October to $5.

It wasn't immediately clear, under the plans reportedly being discussed, whether the blue badge would be included in all Twitter Blue subscriptions. That too could spur greater interest in the subscription service.

Twitter representatives didn't respond to a request for comment.

First published on Oct. 30, 2022 at 3:07 p.m. PT.

 
Honestly, wtf are the bennifits? Just a status symbol?
Mostly.

... Twitter Blue is a subscription service that offers several premium perks, including allowing you to undo a tweet, read news ad-free, edit a published tweet, organize your bookmarks into folders, pin conversations in your DMs and upload videos up to 10 minutes long. ...
 
i'm guessing this is one of (their) lies. they are trying to get people to leave twitter

see that general motors stopped advertising on there --- the (communists) are running another jihad

too, the author of the op has been besmirching musk for a long time. it's nothing more than garden variety (communist) media trash
 
Damn, he can get that 44 billion back in about 509 years!! Brilliant
When I was in college, I saw "costs" for the computer jobs I submitted and I was incredulous. I was told those were "funny money" and they were for internal accounting and were not real. On a larger scale, I suspect that "money" for these huge projects are just "funny money" for the powers that be.
 
$8 for a blue check as apposed to twitter deciding who gets one... they get content privileges for the money as well. Twitter might even make a $ at the end of the day. He is also looking at monetizing content much like youtube, quality posters will be able to make a buck... maybe.
 
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