The new owner of twitter releases continuous announcements through his own platform twitter. Recently, he announced that the users should pay $8/Month to use blue tick continuously. The interesting fact is, Elon Musk just bargained this price with one twitter user who criticized Elon Musk’s hidden plan.
What Is Blue tick On Twitter?
Twitter offers blue ticks to the verified accounts to denote that the particular account is authentic and verified by twitter. Mostly, political leaders, journalists, activists, government officials, institutions, and famous personalities can easily get the Blue tick. Actually, any twitter account holder can apply for the blue tick badge. Twitter verification requirement process states that “To receive the blue badge, your account must be authentic, notable, and active”. But, twitter provides blue tick badges only for certain categories of people.
Story Behind The Fee $8 For Blue Tick On Twitter
One of the famous author Stephen King sorely criticized the twitter’s recent owner elon musk’s idea for collecting fees for the Blue Tick. In his tweet he mentioned “$20 a month to keep my blue check? F**k that, they should pay me. If that gets instituted, I’m gone like Enron.”. He compared this idea with the Enron Scandal.
$20 a month to keep my blue check? Fuck that, they should pay me. If that gets instituted, I’m gone like Enron.
— Stephen King (@StephenKing) October 31, 2022Twitter’s new owner Elon Musk replied to Stephen King’s tweet and bargained the price & explained why he came up with this idea. In this reply, elon musk bargained the amount for blue tick as $8. After this conversation, Elon Musk officially announced the subscription cost for blue tick and other features to the subscribers.
We need to pay the bills somehow! Twitter cannot rely entirely on advertisers. How about $8?
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 1, 2022What will you get if you pay $8 per month?
In a long twitter thread, elon musk announced some other features to the blue tick subscribers.
You will also get:
– Priority in replies, mentions & search, which is essential to defeat spam/scam
– Ability to post long video & audio
– Half as many ads
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 1, 20221. Blue tick subscribers will also get priority in replies, mentions and searches, which is essential to defeating spam or scam
2. $8 per month will provide users with the ability to post long videos and audio.
3. These users will see half as many ads
4. Publishers willing to work with Twitter will get a paywall bypass.
5. There will be a secondary tag below the name for someone who is a public figure, which is already the case for politicians, Musk said.
Why Does Elon Musk Cost $8 For Blue Tick?
As per the 2021 finance states, 89% of twitter’s revenue came from ads. Elon Musk wanted to generate revenue from other sources to avoid the dependency. That’s why he announced fee for blue tick. As per the below tweet, the cost may change per the countries.
Price adjusted by country proportionate to purchasing power parity
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 1, 2022
