According to stories in The Verge and Platformer, Elon Musk is looking for new methods to generate income for Twitter, and one possibility is charging verified users $19.99 a month for access to Twitter Blue.
There were rumours circulating yesterday that Musk, who is slated to announce further layoffs this week, has given the duty of updating Twitter Blue and quadrupling the subscription price from the existing amount of $4.99 per month to the team. The reports indicate that employees who fail to upgrade by November 7 would be terminated.
Verified users (shown by a blue tick) get access to special services on Twitter called “Blue.” Musk’s plan would let these thousands of certified users 90 days to upgrade to the new version or risk losing their blue tick, which is considered a badge of respect in many fields.
Since his bungled Twitter acquisition started to garner attention, one of Musk’s key efforts has been to put an emphasis on verified accounts and bots.
After he complained that the corporation wouldn’t reveal how many spam bots were using the service, it looked like the agreement was going to fall through. The deal was too far along for him to back out now, so he bought Twitter. Yesterday, he announced that “the whole verification procedure is being overhauled right now.”
Twitter has been in disarray under Musk’s leadership, with reports of multiple layoffs (including many in middle management), hoax layoffs, the creation of a fake “content moderation council,” and the most recent incident, Musk self-censoring by tweeting and then deleting a post about the attack on Paul Pelosi. Also, the site for anonymous users has been updated, and even significant changes are on the way this week.
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