{"id":986,"date":"2022-10-31T15:44:37","date_gmt":"2022-10-31T15:44:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yareport.com\/?p=986"},"modified":"2022-10-31T15:51:15","modified_gmt":"2022-10-31T15:51:15","slug":"elon-musk-considers-charging-twitter-users-subscription-for-verified-accounts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yareport.com\/index.php\/2022\/10\/31\/elon-musk-considers-charging-twitter-users-subscription-for-verified-accounts\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk considers charging Twitter users subscription for verified accounts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Elon Musk is considering charging Twitter users $20 a month or $240 a year for a blue tick on their account, as the world\u2019s richest person prepares an overhaul to twitter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Musk is planning changes to Twitter\u2019s Blue subscription service, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.platformer.news\/p\/elons-first-big-move-pay-to-remain\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"according to tech newsletter Platformer\">according to tech newsletter Platformer<\/a>, including raising the $4.99 a month fee to $19.99. Users verified by the platform who carry a blue tick flagging them as a trustworthy source would have 90 days to sign up to Blue or lose their check mark.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Musk did not comment directly on the story but tweeted to his more than 110 million followers on Sunday:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The whole verification process is being revamped right now<\/p>&mdash; Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1586848033550934016?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 30, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>He also flagged a Twitter poll launched on Monday morning asking Twitter users how much they would pay a month for a blue tick: $5; $10; $15; or \u201cwouldn\u2019t pay\u201d. The poll was set up by the tech investor Jason Calacanis, a Musk associate who is part of a team brought in by the multibillionaire to help run the business since the $44 Billion takeover. A basic subscription on Netflix costs $6.99.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In another hint at a big changes at the company, Musk launched a poll on Monday asking users if he should bring back Vine, the video-sharing app viewed as a precursor to TikTok but shut down by Twitter in 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Musk indicated that challenging TikTok would be a motive for the move in an exchange with YouTube star Mr Beast, who wrote \u201cif you did that and actually competed with tik tok that\u2019d be hilarious.\u201d Musk replied: \u201cWhat could we do to make it better than TikTok?\u201d. Twitter has 230 million users, compared with more than 1 billion on TikTok.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He has also pledged to keep content policies in place and maintain bans on restricted accounts until a Twitter content moderation council, announced by the billionaire last week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Elon Musk is considering charging Twitter users $20 a month or $240&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":987,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yareport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yareport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yareport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yareport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yareport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=986"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/yareport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":990,"href":"https:\/\/yareport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986\/revisions\/990"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yareport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yareport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yareport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yareport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}