Twitter is charging for the next feature

Twitter is paying for its next feature. Because the short message service lets its tweet deck disappear behind the PayWall. The popular feature is now only available to Twitter Blue subscribers.

Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter has caused quite a stir. The company did not rest in the months that followed. Between a change in management and mass redundancies, the new owner’s change requests brought considerable unrest to the company.

At the beginning of this week, the next big change in the short message service followed with the reading limit for tweets. Shortly thereafter, the company announced another change. The Twitter dashboard Tweetdeck is to disappear behind the paywall in the future.

Tweetdeck goes behind the paywall

Twitter has in a tweet presented the new tweet deck of his support account. But some users can only enjoy the innovation for a few days.

Because in 30 days, the new version of the Twitter dashboard is supposed to go behind the paywall. Then the Tweetdeck becomes a feature that only verified accounts with a Blue subscription can access.

There will also be no way for users to stay with the old version. All accounts will need to migrate to the new version of Tweetdeck – which is why all accounts will be on the paywall.

Twitter has been planning an overhaul for some time

Two years ago, Twitter announced a complete overhaul of Tweetdeck. This should be done “from the ground up”, like the then product manager Kayvon Beykpour in one Interview with The Verge announced.

In the past few weeks, Tweetdeck has been unusable for many users, so The Verge. According to two employees, this was because Twitter removed outdated APIs to minimize data scraping.

Loud The Verge The problems increased after Twitter introduced its tweet limit. A employee announced on Twitter however, that there is no connection here.

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