Twitter To Start Charging Verified Account Holders

Elon Musk, the new Twitter owner, is planning to introduce paid verification on Twitter.

Musk wants the current Twitter Blue, the company’s optional, $ 4.99-a-month subscription that unlocks additional features, turned into a commercial option that charged verified users.

Twitter is currently planning to charge $19.99 for the new Twitter Blue subscription. Under the current plan, verified users would have 90 days to subscribe or lose their blue checkmark.

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Already, Musk has directed employees working on the project to have the directive effected by November 7th or be fired.

“The whole verification process is being revamped right now,” Musk tweeted on Sunday.

Musk officially took control of Twitter after finalising a $44bn deal to buy the social media network.

In one of his first decisions at the helm of the social media giant, Musk, the world’s richest man, fired three top executives including CEO Parag Agrawal.

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