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Musk announces $8 monthly Twitter subscription for blue tick and other features
Published in The Saudi Gazette on 02 - 11 - 2022

Elon Musk announced on Tuesday that Twitter would launch an $8 (€8) monthly subscription, buying users blue tick certification and exposure to less advertising.
The social network already offers a subscription for paid features, but as its new owner, Musk wants to launch a more expensive and more widely adopted service to increase the platform's income.
"The current system of lords and peasants, with those who have the blue tick and those who don't, is bullshit," said the Telsa boss and SpaceX founder.
"Power to the people! Blue for $8 a month".
Musk's offering merges Twitter Blue — an already in place $5-a-month (€5) subscription for a more comfortable reading mode and editing tools — with the ability for eligible accounts to verify and certify their identity with the blue tick.
Currently, only certain profiles can request such authenticity, including governments, companies, the media, and political, cultural, or sports personalities.
Badges can be revoked if they do not respect the rules of the platform.
Reactions from Twitter users were mixed. Some praised the move saying the current system was "unfair" and needed to be changed, while others questioned if verification would work if it could be bought.
Musk, who took over Twitter last Thursday, asked engineers to work tirelessly on overhauling the system.
He said subscribers would have other benefits: their tweets will appear in priority, they will be able to post longer videos and audio messages, and will be shown "half as many ads".
He also offered subscribers a pay wall bypass from "publishers willing to work with us".
The subscription price will be adjusted according to each country's currency. "It will also bring revenue to Twitter to reward content creators," Musk said.
Musk's comments follow media reports that he was looking at the process of profile verification and how the blue check marks were given. Twitter used to give these to noteworthy profiles based on its own criteria.
More than 80 percent of Twitter users who took part in a recent poll said they would not pay for the checkmark. Some 10 percent said they were willing to pay $5 a month.
The richest man in the world has repeated since the start of his eventful $44 billion (€44.4 billion) takeover bid that he would shake up Twitter, saying he wanted to "help humanity".
But concerns have surrounded Musk's past remarks that he would be allowed banned users back onto the platform, such as former US President Donald Trump. No decisions on this have been made public.
Musk indicated in the past that profitability was not his priority.
But Twitter — whose revenue comes 90 per cent from advertising — is far less profitable compared to its Silicon Valley neighbors Meta (the umbrella company for Facebook and Instagram) and Google (which owns YouTube). — Euronews


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