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Twitter Blue Service Is Back, Including ‘Verified’ Badges
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Twitter Blue Service Is Back, Including ‘Verified’ Badges

[ad_1] Twitter Inc. resumed selling its Twitter Blue premium offering, which gives users a blue verification badge by their names. Twitter Inc. resumed selling its Twitter Blue premium offering, which gives users a blue verification badge by their names, following a weeks-long pause because some subscribers were using the paid service to impersonate well-known accounts. After several postponements, the social network said in a blog post that Twitter Blue is available now. Users who pay $8 a month will receive a check mark in a blue badge next to their profile pictures and will be able to edit tweets, among other perks. Twitter said it will take “a number of other steps to detect and prevent impersonation,” including a requirement that users have a valid phone number attached to t...