Twitter will become a payment service that costs $ 8 per month. That is, if you want your tweets to be seen by others.
Elon Musk, the owner of Twitter for two weeks, held an audio call with advertisers on Wednesday night as well. Many of them have suspended their campaigns due to uncertainty about the direction Musk wants to take with the platform. It is unclear if Musk was able to reassure them. Many of the questions were about verifying and moderating the user’s identity.
Musk said last week that paying users would receive a “blue check mark” next to their names and suggested that their tweets would also be more visible than others. Now it looks like he will go much further. “You’ll still be able to watch tweets from unverified people like you can check your spam folder in Gmail, but the default is to see only verified people,” Musk said. While it continues to call people with blue ticks “verified,” the company has no plans to actually verify identities. If you want a blue check, you need to provide a phone number and credit card and pay $ 8 a month, Musk said. If you pretend to be someone else with bad intentions on Twitter, you can block your account temporarily or even permanently.
On Tuesday night, a Twitter employee announced another floor to. Those who until now had a blue tick, especially celebrities, politicians and journalists, would now receive a new gray tick with the mention “official”. But less than a day later, Musk tweeted about that plan: “I just killed him.” Musk also promised that Twitter will be “real, interesting and fun”. But to fight the misinformation, Musk said he will mostly rely on a volunteer system launched by his predecessor, former CEO Parag Agrawal: Birdwatch (now renamed Community Notes by Musk).
