Twitter premium launches, will charge iPhone users nearly 40% more - WRAL TechWire

Twitter is erstwhile again attempting to launch its premium service, a period aft a erstwhile effort failed. It’s besides committed to expanding tweet quality count.

The societal media institution said Saturday it would fto users bargain subscriptions to Twitter Blue to get a bluish checkmark and entree peculiar features starting Monday.

we’re relaunching @TwitterBlue connected Monday – subscribe connected web for $8/month oregon connected iOS for $11/month to get entree to subscriber-only features, including the bluish checkmark 🧵 pic.twitter.com/DvvsLoSO50

— Twitter (@Twitter) December 10, 2022

The bluish checkmark was primitively fixed to companies, celebrities, authorities entities and journalists verified by the platform. After Elon 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 inundated by imposter accounts, including those impersonating Musk’s businesses Tesla and SpaceX, truthful Twitter suspended the work days aft its launch.

The relaunched work volition outgo $8 a period for web users and $11 a period for iPhone users. Twitter says subscribers volition spot less ads, beryllium capable to station longer videos and person their tweets featured much prominently.

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In a tweet connected Sunday, CEO Elon Musk said quality counts for tweets would summation to 4,000 characters, up from 280. No day was specified.

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