Twitter wants you to pay if you want to be seen and heard on the platform

Twitter CEO Elon Musk has introduced two new adjustments for the social media platform. Beginning April 15, Twitter will solely be showcasing paid Twitter Blue subscribers by means of its “For You” suggestions. Additional, voting in polls will even change into restricted to paid customers solely. These bulletins had been made by means of Elon Musk‘s official Twitter profile.

A Twitter Blue subscription prices $8 per 30 days when signed up by means of the online and extra when signed up by means of cell apps. Nonetheless, past the financial necessities, no additional verification steps are in place to substantiate a person’s id. Any person can select to stay pseudonymous whereas being “verified” on Twitter.

Previously, accounts desirous to have a “verified” blue tick would want to cross by means of a layer of id verification earlier than they bought verified. Twitter additionally recently announced that this legacy “verified” program has been sundown. Customers verified below the legacy program will lose their “verified” standing on April 1. So the one method to stay “verified” on Twitter from April 1 onwards is thru a Twitter Blue subscription.

Musk’s reasoning for these new adjustments factors to a bot swarm downside that might be plaguing the social media platform. Nonetheless, no additional particulars have been supplied for a similar. For the reason that subscription doesn’t really confirm any id, it stays unclear how the proposed algorithm and voting adjustments will sort out the bot swarm downside.

Musk did make clear that the service will proceed to just accept verified bot accounts that observe the platform’s phrases of service and don’t impersonate a human.

In gentle of those latest and upcoming adjustments, it stays to be seen if customers will think about paying for a Twitter Blue subscription. For a lot of, this is perhaps one of the best time to think about a Twitter different. We’ll have to attend and watch.