Twitter launches subscription service for $8 per month
Twitter launched, on Saturday, a monthly subscription service worth 8 dollars, which includes granting subscribers ' accounts a "blue mark" after verifying their data.
In an update for Apple's iOS devices, the company said users who "subscribe now" can get the blue tag next to their names "just like celebrities, companies, and politicians," The Associated Press reported.
It was not immediately clear whether the current owners of the blue mark would lose this property if they did not pay the specified amount.
In November, the new owner of the platform, Elon Musk, described the current Twitter System, which he described as "masters/villagers" that distinguishes the owners of the blue sign from others, as "nonsense".
Musk, who is the richest person in the world, explained that the fee of the blue mark will vary from country to country, noting that those who pay 8 dollars will have priority in many of the platform's features, will be able to share long videos, audio recordings and will be shown 50% fewer ads.
Musk announced the opening of financial rewards for content owners on the Twitter platform, turning it into a source of income for content creators.
The American billionaire, the head of the companies "Tesla" and"SpaceX", recently completed the acquisition of Twitter for 44 billion dollars, and hastened to dismiss 4 of the top managers of the social networking site.
According to an internal document sent to Twitter employees, seen by Agence France-Presse on Friday, "about 50% of employees will be affected" by an ongoing layoff process at the company.
American billionaire Elon Musk justified the decision to lay off employees on Twitter in a tweet on Saturday, that there was no other option for the company than to reduce Considering its workforce, it loses more than $4 million every day.