Twitter Blue launches again today with some changes promised by Elon Musk after the completion of the purchase of the company, and after the platform had to temporarily withdraw the feature due to the disaster of the new verification system. Now the social media subscription service has a new pricing on iOS and greatly improves the experience of getting the much coveted blue badge among other new features we’ll review below.
The main novelty of Twitter Blue is, without a doubt, the possibility of obtaining confirmation next to the username, if yes, the person pays a monthly fee for the service. It’s actually an option that was already available when Elon Musk upgraded Blue’s features after he joined the company. Twitter, however, was forced to withdraw it due to an increase in the number of accounts that used verification to impersonate celebrities or even the mogul himself.
Now, and so it won’t happen again, social network will manually check verification requests made via Twitter Blue. Although there are no specific details yet, it is likely that the platform will ask the user for information to verify their identity. Such as, for example, a photograph of your passport or other document confirming your identity.
Verified accounts will be able to change their username
Twitter also confirmed that those verified accounts that wish to can change their name, username or profile picture. However, they will temporarily lose their badge until the platform manually verifies their account again.
Twitter will also release two new icons for verified accounts differences that correspond to people and celebrities, brands or companies, as well as government. Therefore, they will remove the gray icon with the word “Official” that can be read by some users, and distinguish between accounts in the following way.
- Users and celebrities: blue color icon.
- Brands or companies: gold color icon.
- Government users or accounts: gray color icon.
Twitter Blue subscription will be more expensive on iOS
As part of Elon Musk’s intention to bypass the App Store commission system, a subscription to Twitter Blue and iOS will be more expensive than via the Internet, which the company itself confirmed. On these Apple devices, it will cost $11 per month.. Instead of, if the user subscribes via the web version, they will only pay $8 per month.. That is, you can save 36 euros per year.
We reiterate that the goal is nothing less than to encourage users to subscribe online. so that Twitter can receive 100% of the income. If someone decides to subscribe through the App Store payment system, the social network will also receive a similar amount. And the fact is, 30% of that $11 a month — just over €3 — will go to Apple; and almost 8 remaining euros on Twitter.
On the other hand, Twitter Blue has other benefits besides being able to verify the account. Subscribing users can also edit tweets, watch videos in 1080p resolution and activate “reading mode” visualize flows in a much more intuitive way. Elon Musk too was confirmed More features will be added soon.
Source: Hiper Textual
