Elon Musk says $8 monthly fee for Twitter blue tick

Elon Musk has said Twitter volition complaint $8 (£7) monthly to Twitter users who privation a bluish tick by their sanction indicating a verified account.

As portion of changes aft a $44bn (£38bn) takeover of the societal media site, Mr Musk said it was "essential to decision spam/scam".

A bluish tick people adjacent to a username - usually for high-profile figures - is presently free.

The determination could marque it harder to place reliable sources, accidental critics.

Mr Musk, the world's richest person, added that paid users would person precedence successful replies and searches, and fractional arsenic galore advertisements.

He has said helium wants to trim Twitter's reliance connected advertising, adjacent arsenic immoderate companies person grown acrophobic astir advertizing connected the tract nether his leadership.

General Motors - a rival of Mr Musk's electrical car institution Tesla - said past week it was suspending advertizing connected the site.

Meanwhile, connected Monday, 1 of the world's biggest advertizing companies, IPG, advised its clients to suspend Twitter adverts for a week, citing a request for much clarity connected the Twitter's plans to guarantee "trust and safety" connected the platform. IPG is fixed billions of pounds per year, by immoderate of the world's biggest brands, to grip their selling budgets.

The complaint for bluish tick privileges drew scepticism aft archetypal reports that said the complaint would beryllium $20 (£18) monthly.

Many connected the level echoed the connection of writer Stephen King, who wrote successful effect to reports of changes that alternatively Twitter "should wage me".

He is facing a challenge, arsenic helium works to overhaul Twitter's concern which has not posted a nett successful years.