Twitter is relaunching its controversial Twitter Blue service on Monday following its suspension days after being launched in October. Controversy arose after impostor accounts quickly grew on the platform, some even posing as Elon Musk’s other businesses such as Tesla and SpaceX. The blue checkmark was originally intended as a paid form of verification for users such as journalists, celebrities, and government entities and, at the time, had a proposed cost of $20 per month.
As Twitter is relaunching the service its price has been reduced to $8 per month for web users and then $11 for those on iOS. There is no word on select pricing for Android users. Subscribers will gain access to additional features allowing editing, higher quality 1080p video uploading, a reader mode, and, of course, the blue checkmark. They will also be able to change their handle, photo, or name but doing so will reengage the verification process again. Other included features coming soon are post prioritization, reduced ads, longer video posts, and early access to forthcoming features.
when you subscribe you’ll get Edit Tweet, 1080p video uploads, reader mode, and a blue checkmark (after your account has been reviewed)
— Twitter (@Twitter) December 10, 2022
thanks for your patience as we’ve worked to make Blue better – we’re excited and looking forward to sharing more with you soon!
— Twitter (@Twitter) December 10, 2022
Twitter has also said that it will be adding other types of checkmarks in the future to replace official labels. Businesses, presumably once verified, will receive a Gold checkmark, while Government and something called Multilateral accounts will get a Grey checkmark.
“we’ll begin replacing that “official” label with a gold checkmark for businesses, and later in the week a grey checkmark for government and multilateral accounts”
There has been no mention of prices for businesses or government/multilateral user accounts. No information for the process of applying for the gold/grey checkmarks has been revealed yet either. Some have also already asked in threads if Twitter has a contingency for colorblind users as well.
Discussion (10 replies)
Join Discussion →INAL, but if the costs to do business on both app stores are the same, isn’t he discriminating against consumers?
It's to offset the 30% take that Apple/Google charge for their in-app purchases
For anyone willing to pay it - more power to them.
They aren’t charging $11 for Android users though, afaik.
Because it's only available directly through the website, or IAP on iOS right now. I don't think they have the IAP enabled on Android at this time.
[URL unfurl="true"]https://help.twitter.com/en/using-twitter/twitter-blue#tbwheresignup[/URL]
The Twitter app is on the Google Play Store. Are you saying the app is there but someone using it can’t subscribe to Blue? Seems strange and a dumb business decision if that’s the case, but then I didn’t overpay for Twitter by 30 Billion so what do I know.
Edit: It mentions in the help link to contact Apple or Android for all app related purchases, so I guess the $11 also applies to Android but doesn’t mention it?
Apparently that is the case but I can’t verify that
What's stopping people from signing up on web, then logging in from ios? Or will you need a separate subscription for each device you log in from? That would be extremely dumb, even for Elon.
I think that's what Elon wants. People to bypass iOS or Google Play for the subscription.
https://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2022/12/14
Here's what the free Unicode community edition looks like:
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