Twitter Launches $8 Monthly Subscription with Blue Checkmark to Apple iOS Devices

New York, November 5: Twitter on Saturday launched a subscription service for USD 8 a month that features a blue checkmark now given to verified accounts as new proprietor Elon Musk overhauls the platform’s verification system.

In an replace to Apple iOS units, Twitter stated customers who “sign up now” can obtain the blue checkmark subsequent to their names, “just like the celebrities, companies and politicians you already follow.”

The change represents the top of Twitter’s present verification system, which was launched in 2009 to forestall impersonations of high-profile accounts similar to celebrities and politicians. Twitter earlier than the overhaul had about 423,000 verified accounts, a lot of them rank-and-file journalists from across the globe that the corporate verified no matter what number of followers they’d.

Consultants have raised grave issues about upending the platform’s verification system that, whereas not excellent, has helped Twitter’s 238 million day by day customers decide whether or not the accounts they had been getting data from had been genuine. The replace Twitter made to the iOS model of its app doesn’t point out verification as a part of the brand new “blue check” system.

It comes a day after the corporate started shedding employees to minimize prices. About half of the corporate’s workers of seven,500 was let go, tweeted Yoel Roth, Twitter’s head of security & integrity.

Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey on Saturday took blame for such widespread job losses. He had two runs as CEO of Twitter, with the latest stretching from 2015 into 2021. “I own the responsibility for why everyone is in this situation: I grew the company size too quickly,” he tweeted. “I apologize for that.”