Saturday December 10, 2022 2:32 p.m. PST by Joe Rossignol
Twitter contiguous announced its Twitter Blue subscription enactment is relaunching Monday for $8/month connected the web and $11/month done its iOS app. The higher terms connected iOS helps to offset the 15% to 30% chopped that Apple receives from subscriptions paid done the App Store — a interest that Twitter proprietor Elon Musk has criticized arsenic being excessively high.
Twitter Blue subscribers volition person a bluish checkmark adjacent to their name, but lone aft they verify their telephone fig and their relationship has been reviewed. Other perks see the quality to edit tweets and upload higher-resolution 1080p videos, and Reader Mode for easy speechmaking tweet threads. Subscribers who alteration their username, show name, oregon illustration photograph volition temporarily suffer the bluish checkmark until their relationship is reviewed again.
Twitter paused caller Blue subscriptions past period aft accounts with bluish checkmarks were utilized to impersonate businesses, celebrities, and different high-profile individuals. The lone request to get a bluish checkmark was to walk $8.
Twitter besides announced that it volition statesman replacing the "Official" statement for brands and different notable accounts with a golden checkmark for businesses, portion a grey checkmark for authorities and multilateral accounts volition statesman rolling retired aboriginal successful the week.
An representation shared by Twitter shows that Twitter Blue subscribers volition besides yet spot 50% less ads than non-subscribers, summation the quality to station longer videos, person prioritized tweets successful the replies section, mentions, and search, and get aboriginal entree to different caller features implicit time. All of these perks are listed arsenic "coming soon."
Twitter has not indicated erstwhile accounts that were antecedently verified without subscribing to Twitter Blue volition suffer their bluish checkmark.
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