Twitter Blue relaunches Monday with higher monthly price for iPhone users - FOX 7 Austin

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Published December 12, 2022 10:42AM

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In this photograph illustration, Twitter logo is seen connected a smartphone successful a manus successful beforehand of a Twitter webpage astir motorboat caller subscription work Twitter Blue. (Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

After respective delays, Twitter Blue has relaunched Monday. The work volition outgo $8 a period for web users and $11 a period for iPhone users. 

Twitter Blue is an opt-in, paid monthly subscription that adds a bluish checkmark to your relationship and offers aboriginal entree to prime caller features, similar Edit Tweet. 

With the improved service, Twitter Blue subscribers volition present spot less ads, beryllium capable to station longer videos, and person their tweets featured much prominently. 

Twitter says they volition adhd precedence notifications for accounts with bluish checkmarks. This diagnostic allows Twitter users to spot notifications from accounts with bluish checkmarks successful a caller verified section wrong the platform’s notifications timeline

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Twitter Blue subscribers can't alteration their show sanction oregon username aft receiving a bluish checkmark, according to Twitter. The institution says their readying to instrumentality a caller process soon for display/user sanction changes.

The bluish checkmark was primitively fixed to companies, celebrities, authorities entities, and journalists verified by the societal media platform.

Twitter explains that radical with caller idiosyncratic accounts can't motion up for Twitter Blue for 90 days. The institution says their moving connected an updated process for caller Twitter accounts to assistance little impersonation risks and whitethorn enforce waiting periods for caller accounts without notice. 

"Thanks for your patience arsenic we’ve worked to marque Blue amended – we’re excited and looking guardant to sharing much with you soon!" Twitter wrote Saturday. 

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After Musk bought Twitter for $44 cardinal successful October, helium launched a work granting bluish checks to anyone consenting to wage $8 a month. But it was flooded by imposter accounts, including from immoderate impersonating Musk's businesses Tesla and SpaceX, truthful Twitter suspended the work days aft its launch.

The Associated Press contributed to this story. This communicative was reported from Washington, D.C. 
 

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