Musk Ruffles Feathers With Twitter’s New Subscription Model for Blue Checkmarks - Vanity Fair

Elon Musk rolled retired a Twitter subscription exemplary connected Saturday that asks users to wage $7.99 per period for a bluish checkmark, a diagnostic that utilized to beryllium escaped and required individuality verification.

Typically, companies, celebrities, and journalists transportation the bluish checkmark adjacent to their Twitter username. Musk has flirted with the thought of a costly checkmark since October; he took implicit the company connected October 27.

"The sprint to our motorboat continues but immoderate folks whitethorn spot america making updates due to the fact that we are investigating and pushing changes successful real-time," tweeted Esther Crawford, who works connected Twitter’s early-stage products team, connected Saturday.

Before the diagnostic went into effect, connected Friday, Color of Change CEO Rashad Robinson said: “Any right-wing troll tin wage $8… get a bluish cheque people and past alteration their sanction to CNN oregon Georgia’s caput of state.”

The archetypal bluish checkmark diagnostic required individuality verification, truthful it could beryllium utilized to combat misinformation and awesome to users that tweets from bluish checkmarked accounts were coming from authoritative accounts alternatively than scammers. It’s unclear presently arsenic to whether the new bluish checkmark strategy volition besides person a verification process. 

The caller proprietor has been successful Twitter squabbles with a fig of users with bluish checkmarks, including writer Stephen King and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), who balked astatine the caller subscription model.

Earlier this week AOC tweeted: “Lmao astatine a billionaire earnestly trying to merchantability radical connected the thought that ‘free speech’  is really a $8/mo subscription plan.” She said her relationship was aboriginal “bricked” aft she upset Musk.