Twitter Relaunching Its Subscription Service With Higher Price for iPhone Users - NBC New York

Twitter is erstwhile again attempting to motorboat its premium service, a period aft a erstwhile effort failed.

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.

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.