Al Marsad Newspaper: Twitter plans to start charging around $ 20 per month for users to keep blue ticks as part of a premium service to be launched under the leadership of the company’s new owner, billionaire Elon Musk.
“The whole verification process has been revamped at the moment,” Musk said on Twitter on Sunday, without giving further details on what could change.
According to a report published by the technical website “The Verge”, the company plans to increase its optional premium subscription of $ 4.99 per month called “Twitter Blue”, dedicated to verifying the identity of the holder, to $ 19.99 per month. account. The report points out that employees working on the project have until November 7 to launch the function, otherwise they will be fired. The report noted that “existing authorized users have 90 days to subscribe to the new Twitter Blue after its launch, otherwise they will lose their ticks.”