Paying up for Twitter's blue tick? Here's what else you get for your money

Twitter is to complaint users for the celebrated bluish tick - the archetypal large alteration since Elon Musk's arguable takeover.

An update to its iOS app connected Saturday said the diagnostic was live successful the fistful of countries that person been investigating the premium Twitter Blue work - which primitively launched past year.

However, the bluish tick roll-out is present reportedly being paused until aft Tuesday's US midterm elections.

The New York Times said unit had raised concerns radical could usage it to impersonate governmental figures and people mendacious information.

Twitter Blue, which has present accrued to $7.99 per period successful the US, is presently disposable successful America, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand - but should soon beryllium disposable elsewhere, including the UK.

So what are immoderate of the different features you get beside the bluish tick?

Embarrassing typo? Edit and undo tweets

A long-requested feature, users tin edit tweets up to 5 times wrong the archetypal 30 minutes of tweeting: for illustration to hole typos oregon clarify meaning.

The information the tweet is edited is flagged up and others tin click done to spot the erstwhile versions.

Twitter Blue users besides person an undo tweet function, which gives a little "cooling-off" play earlier the station goes unrecorded - utile possibly if you've forgotten to tag someone.

It gives a preview of the tweet and a countdown during which clip the station tin beryllium retracted. The undo play tin beryllium customised from the default 20 seconds.

Custom colours and bespoke navigation

Fed up with the classical Twitter airy blue? Fancy a pinkish taxable oregon distressed black? Subscribed users tin alteration the colour of the app icon, arsenic good arsenic the wide colour theme.

The navigation barroom tin besides beryllium customised to see people's most-used destinations specified arsenic notifications, lists, messages, apical articles oregon explore.

Text size tin besides beryllium changed.

Upload overmuch longer videos - and successful amended quality

Paying users besides get archetypal entree to caller Labs features being tested, up of "regular" non-subscribers.

These presently see being capable to station videos up to 10 minutes - alternatively than the regular 2 minutes 20 seconds - and successful afloat 1080p HD quality.

This is acceptable to summation to 42 minutes successful the coming days arsenic the features of "new Blue" rotation out, meaning radical tin embed longer clips successful their tweets alternatively than linking disconnected to a work similar YouTube.

NFT illustration photo

People who've delved into the satellite of NFTs (non-fungible tokens) - perhaps 1 of Damien Hirst's spot paintings - tin besides usage their virtual acquisition arsenic their illustration photograph by connecting their crypto wallet.

Top Articles and precedence ranking for subscribers

Users tin usage this conception to spot what which articles are creating a buzz and being shared by the radical they follow.

Other features promised to beryllium "coming soon" connected Twitter Blue see less adverts and precedence ranking successful search, mentions and replies for "quality content" posted by subscribers.

Although, immoderate person raised concerns that this could make a strategy wherever different posts go harder to find.

Twitter enforcement Esther Crawford has said that contempt the iOS app update, the caller Twitter Blue has not afloat rolled retired yet.

"The caller Blue isn't unrecorded yet - 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," she posted.

And arsenic the wide sacking of Twitter unit continues to reverberate - thing Musk says is captious to halt the steadfast losing money - dozens of workers are reportedly present being asked to return.

Bloomberg reported connected Sunday that immoderate were sacked by mistake, portion others were fto spell earlier it was realised their skills are inactive needed.