Twitter, under its new CEO, Elon Musk, may begin charging $20 a month as subscription fees from its users who have verified accounts. This is a sharp rise from the $5, and not coughing up this fee will mean that users will lose the coveted blue tick on their profiles, The Verge reported.
Twitter Blue is currently $4.99 a month, but under Musk’s plans its price would soar to $20 a month – a move branded ‘greedy’ by one user.
Musk – the world’s richest person with a net worth of more than $210billion (£180billion) – completed his purchase of Twitter last week after a protracted legal battle and months of uncertainty.
According to reports, Musk told Twitter developers they will all be fired if they don’t meet the November 7 launch deadline to get the changes implemented, even though they were only told about it on October 30.
Twitter is planning to remove blue ticks from profiles after 90 days if users don’t subscribe to Twitter Blue, the reports claim.
MailOnline has contacted Twitter regarding how the plans affect the millions of users where Twitter Blue hasn’t launched yet, which includes the UK.
The plans were revealed by The Verge, which cited Twitter’s internal correspondence and ‘people familiar with the matter’.
But the revelation has caused a storm on Twitter, with many threatening to delete their accounts in protest.
Twitter user @PhilosophyBIM posted: ‘I really don’t care about the blue checkmark on my profile as “verified” but if I have to pay to use twitter down the road, I’d delete my account all together. Simple as that.’
@AusomeCharlie said she ‘might delete Twitter’, adding that she’s ‘horrified about the paid blue tick idea’.
And @bouncytorch said: ‘today i learned about twitter blue and it made me wanna delete my twitter once again.’
Meanwhile, @VirtuaMcPolygon said: ‘Cue the mass exodus.’
It’s unclear if the thousands of official accounts for companies, charities, non-profits and public bodies will be affected – and if they’ll have their blue ticks removed if they don’t pay the monthly $20 charge.
According to Twitter, the blue tick next to an account’s name indicates that an account has been verified and ‘lets people know that an account of public interest is authentic’.
It’s a helpful visual indicator that lets other users know that an account is the official home of the user it’s purporting to represent – and not an imitator.
But users don’t seem to like the idea of paying $20 for the privilege, with one user calling it an ‘outrageous’ price to pay.
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