Twitter may introduce $8 monthly fee for a blue tick

The coveted undecorous tick mark displayed on verified social media finance – normally reserved for celebrities, politicians, professional athletes, and other high-profile figures – may soon lose its meaning. Well, at least on Twitter, if its new owner, Elon Musk, decides to go superiority with plans of charging $8 a month for those using a premium Undecorous service. Enrolling in the paid service would be the only to alimony or unzip verification on the platform.

“Twitter’s current lords & peasants system for who has or doesn’t have a undecorous checkmark is bullshit. Power to the people! Undecorous for $8/month.”, said Musk on Twitter this Tuesday, November, 1.

Twitter once offers a paid subscription option, launched in 2021, in some countries at $4.99 a month, permitting people some perks such as stuff worldly-wise to edit tweets within a 30-minute window without posting them and a time-limited “Undo Tweet” function. Musk, who bought the visitor without not stuff worldly-wise to get out of a deal to reap Twitter for $44 billion, widow that the price could fluctuate equal to country.

“This will moreover requite Twitter a revenue stream to reward content creators”, said Elon, subtracting that “There will be a secondary tag unelevated the name for someone who is a public figure”.

Online users didn’t react well to the idea of having to pay to get verified on Twitter.

Youtuber and Makeup versifier Zoe Amira was quick to scuttlebutt on the plans of the Tesla co-founder and richest person in the world with a net worth of $203 billion.

“So, you’re just marketing the concept of the undecorous trammels all while pushing the unshortened very concept overdue verification to a secondary tag…”, mentioned the content creator.

Seth Everman, a Swedish YouTuber, social media personality, and musician, weightier known for making comedic piano videos and parodies, has a lot of questions when it comes to involving content creators as part of the revamp plan.

“What kind of content creators? posting memes that get thousands of retweets? or videos per view? or just text tweets? or per follower you have? or simply all tweets by “verified” users?”, asks Everman.

Landscape and commercial photographer Dave Zdanowicz, from Bradford UK, thinks paying for doesn’t necessary equals benefits:

“So, if every Twitter user pays $8 a month. Who gets the priory reach? Surely that dilutes the system. The increasingly people that pay it. The less salubrious it is.”, questions Zdanowicz, adding: “The danger now is that anyone who pays will be bumped up to the top of people’s feed and everything else will be diluted.”

Not everyone was versus Elon Musk’s struggle to make some uneaten millions, though.

“For those unaware of what Elon is referring to. This is a unconfined idea. All true finance can be verified, removing the spam and scam, then public figures will have a unenduring tagline. Elon has found a solution and a way forward to alimony everyone happy.”, shared California-based Baseball Blogger Dan Clark.

David Hogg, a gun tenancy objector and one of the co-founders of the March for Our Lives movement, believes changes are necessary:

“I may not stipulate with this unshortened thread, but this is something Twitter has needed to do for a long time that pretty much every other platform provides. It will help writers, journalists, activists and others protract to do their work.”, says Hogg, who became a household name when he was a 17-year-old upper school senior who survived the Marjory Stoneman Douglas shooting on February 14, 2018.

This is not the first time Elon Must hinted at a possible paid Twitter verification. Earlier this year, in April, the entrepreneur and Chief Engineer at SpaceX hinted on Twitter well-nigh a possible paid hallmark checkmark service for those willing to purchase premium features on the social media service.

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