After Twitter started providing users who log in For a monthly subscription of $ 8 The blue check mark option looks like this step will be delayed.
The New York Times reported Sunday that Twitter will delay charging users a $ 8 monthly fee for a blue tick until after Tuesday’s mid-term US election.
Twitter has not yet responded to a request for comment.
$ 8 per month
On Saturday, Twitter updated its app on Apple’s App Store to start charging $ 8 a month for blue ticks.
Tuesday’s midterm elections will decide who gets the majority in Congress between Republicans and Democrats led by the president
Joe Biden
In turn, American billionaire Elon Musk began firing hundreds of Twitter employees on Friday and four days before the midterm elections, including team members who worked in the US elections and edited content on the social networking platform.
Elon Musk (archive – AFP)
layoffs
Tweets flooded the platform on Friday, and several employees used hashtags to share news while other employees said they were abandoned.
Many of those who had previously been laid off worked in senior departments including public policy, trust, security, communications, engineering, marketing, and human resources.
Half of Twitter’s public policy team, including members of the team that oversees politicians, has been left out.
44 billion dollars
Interestingly, Musk acquired Twitter last Thursday, for $ 44 billion, after many months of back and forth.
Since completing the takeover deal, Musk has moved quickly to put his brand on the company, firing his former boss, Paraj Agrawal, and other senior company officials last week.
