Twitter Expected to Start Charging $20 Per Month for a Blue Checkmark - PCMag

Elon Musk isn't hanging astir making changes to his newly-acquired societal network, and the Twitter Blue subscription is expected to quadruple successful terms adjacent month.

As The Verge reports(Opens successful a caller window), radical acquainted with the substance assertion that the optional Twitter Blue subscription, which presently costs $4.99 per month, is expected to summation to $19.99 and volition beryllium required if a idiosyncratic wants to support their bluish checkmark verification. If the terms summation does happen, it comes lone a fewer months aft Musk stated Twitter Blue outgo excessively much.

Musk has seemingly acceptable an interior deadline for Twitter's engineers to person the revamped Blue subscription acceptable by Nov. 7. If they don't, they are fired, but are being aided by Tesla engineers brought successful arsenic advisors. Musk has seemingly been moving precocious each nighttime and passim the play implementing changes to the service.

For existing Twitter Blue subscribers, the planned summation successful terms whitethorn beryllium excessively precocious to stomach. The existent premim features offered with the subscription see ad-free articles, bookmark folders, customized app icons, themes, customized navigation, apical articles, Reader, and Undo Tweets. It's unclear if each of these volition stay disposable astatine the higher terms point.

Blue checkmark verification is simply a diagnostic that's presently autarkic of the subscription, but not for overmuch longer. It's thought immoderate Twitter relationship with a checkmark volition beryllium fixed 90 days to subscriber to Twitter Blue oregon their verification volition disappear. How galore volition opt to walk $240 a twelvemonth to support it?

If Elon Musk wanted radical to instrumentality announcement of his Twitter acquisition, this quality surely had the desired effect. However, it looks arsenic though the billionaire is lone conscionable getting started. A tweet by Musk earlier contiguous posed the question "Bring backmost Vine?(Opens successful a caller window)"