And the Twitter team has until November 7 to implement it or they will be fired.
Elon Musk, who officially owns Twitter following the conclusion of his $44 billion deal, is reportedly planning to charge users on the platform $20 a month to earn the coveted verification badge via Twitter Blue subscription. Also, those who are already verified will have 90 days to subscribe or they will lose their verified status. The team on the project was told they had until November 7 to launch the feature or they would be fired.
Platformer ve The Verge As reported by Twitter Blue currently costs $4,99 per month and allows users to edit their tweets, get early access to new features and more, but it has nothing to do with verification at the moment.
Confirmation as of this writing, It means “to let people know that a public interest account is real”. To get the blue badge, your account must be real, notable, and active. If your account is proven to be in the public interest, there is no fee to verify it, as there is a way to prevent accounts from impersonating you. It's unclear at this time whether this new plan will verify everyone with a Twitter Blue subscription, or whether only subscribers will be considered for verification.
Musk has been outspoken in his ideas for addressing how Twitter verifies accounts and fixes bot issues. “The entire verification process is currently being refreshed,” he tweeted.
Despite closing the deal on October 28, Musk has already made moves, including changing the homepage to the Explore page for logged out users. There are also reports that it plans to cut more than 5.000 jobs in a move "for mid-level managers and engineers who haven't contributed to the code base recently."
Twitter currently makes most of its money from ads, but these changes and more are part of Musk's plans to make subscriptions "at least half of the company's total revenue."
After making the initial $44 billion deal to buy Twitter, Musk claimed he violated the deal after, among other things, he said Twitter hadn't done enough to reveal how many spambots and fake accounts were on the platform. A lawsuit was filed for this termination and He would go to court if he didn't complete it by October 28, but he did so right away.
