Twitter Blue will soon cost $8 a month, with verification included
Elon Musk has spoken and put an end to the fuss over verification on Twitter. Because that should be part of the Twitter Blue subscription in the future and will cost eight US dollars per month.
Elon Musk leaves nothing to burn on Twitter after taking over the group. After he separated from the management floor and questioned the verification via the blue tick, the solution now comes – at least for the latter problem.
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Elon Musk wants to transform Twitter Blue
Above all, the new version of Twitter Blue is intended to solve one problem and in the future will also contain some kind of verification. Because Elon Musk wants to abolish the “current system of rule that determines who has a blue tick and who doesn’t.” It’s nonsense, like him writes on Twitter.
Twitter’s current lords & peasants system for who has or doesn’t have a blue checkmark is bullshit.
Power to the people! Blue for $8/month.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 1, 2022
In his thread, Musk demands: “Power to the people!” He announces that Twitter Blue will in future cost eight US dollars a month in the USA. For other countries, the subscription fee is to be adjusted “according to purchasing power parity”.
What should the new Twitter Blue look like?
But Elon Musk doesn’t just talk about the blue tick and pricing in his thread on Twitter. He also explains further plans for the premium subscription.
In the future, users with a Twitter Blue subscription should only see half of the advertisements. They are also given the opportunity to publish longer video and audio contributions.
Twitter will also prioritize users for replies, mentions, and searches. According to Musk, this is “essential to combat spam/fraud”.
Musk discusses pricing with Stephen King
At the beginning of the week it was discussed that the blue tick on Twitter should cost 20 US dollars a month in the future. However, this message was not well received by all users.
Not so with bestselling author Stephen King. He complained in a tweet and wrote that if this regulation was actually implemented, he would be gone.
$20 a month to keep my blue check? Fuck that, they should pay me. If that gets instituted, I’m gone like Enron.
— Stephen King (@StephenKing) October 31, 2022
Elon Musk then declared that Twitter had to “pay the bills somehow”. The short message service cannot rely solely on advertising. His counteroffer: “How about eight dollars?”
We need to pay the bills somehow! Twitter cannot rely entirely on advertisers. How about $8?
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 1, 2022
But the income should apparently not only be used so that Twitter can pay its bills. As Musk further explains in his Blue thread, this should also create “a source of income for rewarding creators”.
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