Musk relaunches Twitter Blue this Monday and will be more expensive for iPhone users

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La red social Twitter has announced that it will launch this Monday a new subscription system that includes a verification system which includes the well-known blue badge, after several postponements by Elon Musk, owner of the company since October.

«On Monday we will relaunch ‘Twitter Blue’. Subscribe on the web por eight dollars a month the why eleven dollars a month on iOS devices –Apple’s operating system used on iPhone– to gain access to exclusive features for subscribers, including the blue badge,” the social network said in a series of messages.

Thus, it has detailed that this logo will be replaced by a gold colored one for companies, while later a gris for “governmental and multilateral” organizations. The blue badge will be awarded to subscribers “once the account has been reviewed.”

Subscribers may also edit their tweets, post higher quality videos, a reading mode and change your name on Twitter and show your name or profile picture, although he has qualified that “if they do, they will temporarily lose the blue badge until their account is reviewed again.”

Thank you for your patience while we’ve been working to improve Twitter. We are excited and hope to give more information soon, “Twitter has riveted. Musk announced in November his decision to postpone until November 29 the program of payment verification of the platform until it can guarantee that “it is solid as a rock”, although the deadlines were extended.

Musk’s decision came after several days in which users of the social network who had chosen to pay $7.99 a month had indicated that they could not access the functions of ‘Twitter Blue’.

The new payment model proposed by the billionaire would have been suspended after allowing countless users to acquire verification to impersonate entities of recognized prestige, damaging the reputation of companies or public figures.



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