New Twitter head Elon Musk said Tuesday that the site will charge a monthly fee of $8 for users who want Desirable blue tick with their name in plan is says will solve Site robot and troll problems While creating a new revenue stream for company.
The announcement Comes just days after the world’s richest man took sole control of The social media giant in A controversial $44 billion deal.
.’s strength people! blue for $8 per month, “Musk” who Styled himself as a champion of free speech, he tweeted, in A reference to the platform’s paid subscription service, Twitter Blue.
under new Paid plan subscribers He will receive the famous blue check mark on Twitter which indicates a trusted account.
who – which feature he is currently offered only to public characters, an approach described by Musk as “lords and peasants.” system. “
blue twitter said subscribers Will be also Receiving a “priority” placement in “Responses, mentions, and search,” which he described as “essential to beat spam/phishing.”
He will be there also The video is expanded abilitiesFewer ads and the possibility for Users to get “Payless Subscription Blocking System Bypass for Publishers are ready work with us,” He said.
blue twitter currently allows Users access emphasis news Locations for Free and without ads, like the Los Angeles Times.
“This will also give Twitter is a source of income for reward content creatorsMask tweeted.
Addressing concerns of Some Twitter users say that their blue check mark will lose its bad reputation, is also announced “Secondary mark below The name for someone who he is public number, which is already the case for Policy.”
Twitter Blue . service currently Offers various another installment featureslike let subscribers to edit their tweets.
The new plan pricing, up From current $5 a month, it would be adjusted By country “in proportion to purchase power Parity, “Musk added in a reply for him original tweet.
Musk retweeted and responded to users praising the idea of paid verification, saying that move “will destroy robots”.
If you share a paid Blue account in Spam/fraud, this account will be suspended,” Musk wrote.
Necessity to pay bills
For users currently They have blue checkmarks, which Musk is considering removing if they don’t pay for The new Services, tech news I mentioned The Verge outlet.
Some users have warned that they will simply leave the site if they are made to pay.
The head of SpaceX and Tesla floated the idea of an $8 subscription fee earlier Tuesday in Tweet reply By author Stephen King, who He was complaining about him media Reports that can verify service cost $20 per month.
“we need To pay the bills one way or another! “
Twitter can’t be completely reliable on advertisers. How about 8 bucks? “
Suggestion only one part of a series of sweep changes 51-year-old entrepreneur implemented on Twitter, with Entire boardincluding CEO Parag Agrawal, let’s go last week.
The Washington Post reported that Musk, his bio account currently It reads “Twitter Complaint Hotline Operator,” plans to me fire about 75% of His company has 7500 employees.
Musk funded the mega deal through a mixture of of his own fortune, money From other investment groups and loans from banks that will have to be repaid.
His previous comments condemn Twitter content The heavy-handed politics of moderation – and so are his recurring positions of Boundary-tested memes – gave pause For some advertisers, currently company main source of he won.
Some users have expressed their fear that Twitter will turn into a file global The theater for Hate speech and misinformation.
Try to calm the nerves reassuring over On a weekend when the site won’t be “free for-all hell,” and announced squad of a content Moderation Council.
but on On Sunday, Musk himself tweeted an anti-LGBT conspiracy theory about what happened the night of US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. husband I was attacked, then hours later delete a file post.
