Pay Twitter Blue Checks! Here's The Reason From Elon Musk

Elon Musk is still making some adjustments to Twitter. (photo: twotter @elonmusk)

YOGYAKARTA - Speaking of paid Twitter blue ticks, usut has a new Twitter owner Elon Musk suggested on Tuesday that he wants to charge $8 per month for a subscription package that will give users a verified blue tick coveted on their account.

In a series of tweets, he added that Twitter's subscription service, known as Twitter Blue, will also include other features, such as priorities in replies, designations, and search results, as well as the ability to post long video and audio clips. Customers will also see more and more commercials.

Twitter Blue currently costs $5.00 per month but does not include a verified tick as an advantage. In his tweet, Musk characterises the current system for who gets a check mark as an exception and calls it "empty talk."

Twitter gives verified badges to accounts for free after the company determines that users are "original, well-known, and active." Blue ticks are meant to signal users that celebrity accounts, journalists, politicians, or other public figures are not fake. Regardless of Twitter's intentions, blue ticks are considered by some users as a status symbol. The company has tried to change its verification system, and also misverified fake accounts.

Musk's real plan to charge for verification shows that the billionaire is trying to make Twitter less dependent on advertising. But that move also raises questions about how users can tell if a public figure's account is genuine. Musk then tweeted on Tuesday that "there will be secondary tags under the name of someone who is a public figure."

Twitter did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Prior to Musk's tweet Tuesday, there were various reports on Twitter that could potentially charge for verification. The company's executives were "very considering" requiring people with free check marks on their profiles to pay $5 USD each month to subscribe to Twitter Blue or lose their badges,sey Newton of the Platformer reported Sunday afternoon. Executives spend the weekend talking about ideas and making plans about the action, an unknown source told Newton.

It's unclear from Musk's tweet whether verified users will lose a blue tick if they don't subscribe to Twitter Blue.

A report from The Verge suggests that Twitter is considering collecting more for its subscription service. The report says Twitter plans to charge $20 for a new Twitter Blue subscription, and the blue tick will disappear for users if they don't pay. According to the report, users will be given 90 days to subscribe before they lose their blue tick. Employees working on the project seem to be given until November 7 to implement the changes.

The reported price of $20 per month irritated some well-known Twitter users, including author Stephen King.

"$20 a month to keep my blue check? Tell me, they have to pay me. If it's institutionalized, I go like Enron," King tweeted on Monday.

"We have to pay the bill somehow! Twitter can't fully rely on advertisers. What about $8?" Musk replied.

Blue tick marks are seen by some as a status symbol because they have them quite rare. In 2021, only 360,000 accounts, or 0.2% of Twitter's daily active users can be monetized, are verified. However, related costs can give companies new revenue streams when reportedly getting ready to layoffs under Musk.

Twitter Blue is a subscription service that offers several premium facilities, including allowing you to cancel tweets, read ad-free news, edit published tweets, set your markers into folders, embed conversations in your DM, and upload videos for up to 10 minutes. When launched in 2021, the service costs $3, but monthly costs rose in October to $5.

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