Elon Musk’s unconfirmed plan to charge verified Twitter users $8 per month to keep their blue badges is receiving plenty of backlash on the platform he hopes revitalize.
, Musk wants to change Twitter Blue, the company’s optional, $4.99 a month subscription that unlocks additional features, into a subscription package that also verifies users for $19.99 a month. Verified users who do not subscribe to the new package would lose their verification status after 90 days.
Twitter Blue will cost $8 per month, he explained, with the “price adjusted by country proportionate to purchasing power parity.” The subscription package will also include additional features, including “priority in replies, mentions & search” the “ability to post long video & audio, and half as many ads.
The updated version of the plan has generated loads of backlash and chatter about Twitter’s downfall.: “Verification is currently used to establish authenticity of identities on Twitter. The verified badge helps users discover high-quality sources of information and trust that a legitimate source is authoring the account’s Tweets.”, though they must meet a certain set of requirements.
“The check mark makes Twitter an easier environment for processing and believing news, and to the extent Twitter wants people to come to it to gain new information, that matters a lot,”. “If everyone can buy that symbol of authenticity, it ceases to confer any at all.”
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