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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...
Twitter Blue Price Is $8, Elon Musk Says
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Twitter Blue Price Is $8, Elon Musk Says

[ad_1] Elon Musk said the premium version of Twitter, called Blue, will cost $8 a month and will include a verified check mark for paying users’ accounts. Elon Musk said the premium version of Twitter, called Blue, will cost $8 a month and will include a verified check mark for paying users' accounts.Musk, who acquired the social network for $44 billion last week, said these Blue users would also get priority in replies, mentions and Twitter search, and half as many ads. They would also have the ability to bypass paywalls for “publishers willing to work with us,” he said on Twitter. Musk called Twitter Inc.'s current verification system, which applies a check mark to users and brands that may be at risk of getting impersonated, a “lords & peasants” system. “Power to the people!” h...