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X Starts Subscription Tiers That Cost Up to $16 a Month
29Oct By adminNo Comments
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X Starts Subscription Tiers That Cost Up to $16 a Month

[ad_1]  Elon Musk's X began offering new subscription tiers for users on Friday in an attempt to shore up revenue at the social media company. Subscribers have the option of paying $3 a month for the basic tier, which provides features such as the ability to edit posts and upload longer videos, according to the company formerly known as Twitter Inc. We are now on WhatsApp. Click to join. Web users can opt to pay $8 a month for the premium tier or $16 a month for premium , to get additional benefits including the blue checkmark, ad revenue sharing, and fewer or no ads in their timelines. Users subscribing through Apple Inc.'s iOS and the Android platform will pay more. Since Musk bought the company a year ago, X has shifted away from advertising and toward paid subscriptions. A new analy...
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Elon Musk says two X Premium tiers coming soon; Know all about it
20Oct By adminNo Comments
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Elon Musk says two X Premium tiers coming soon; Know all about it

[ad_1] For weeks, it has been known that X (formerly Twitter) would introduce multiple tiers as part of its subscription known as X Premium. It is just one of the several changes that the microblogging platform has undergone since Elon Musk's acquisition. Although the majority of Musk's moves have been called draconian by users, the Tesla and SpaceX CEO has not shied away from enforcing them, with the aim of making X a super app that competes with China's WeChat. In the latest announcement, Musk has now revealed that the tiers of the X Premium subscription could be coming soon.X Premium tiersIn an X post on Friday, Musk announced that two new tiers of the X Premium subscription would be coming soon. He wrote, “Two new tiers of X Premium subscriptions launching soon.” As suspected, one o...
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X starts charging new users annual fee to use basic features; Know all about it
18Oct By adminNo Comments
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X starts charging new users annual fee to use basic features; Know all about it

[ad_1] Ever since Elon Musk took over X (formerly Twitter), it has undergone a myriad of changes. In a bid to make it a super app that can compete with China's WeChat, the microblogging platform has received several new features, alongside a complete rebranding that resulted in Larry the Bird being replaced by an X. However, not all users are happy with the multitude of changes being introduced on the platform, with several of them calling these moves draconian. Just recently, it was announced that X would bring a 3-tier subscription model to its X Premium. Now, a new report has added fuel to the fire by revealing that X could charge users for basic features, and has already started testing the same in 2 countries. Let's take a look. X to charge users?According to a report by Fortune (...
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Elon Musk is testing 3 tiers of premium subscription on X, says CEO Linda Yaccarino
6Oct By adminNo Comments
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Elon Musk is testing 3 tiers of premium subscription on X, says CEO Linda Yaccarino

[ad_1] X (formerly Twitter) has begun testing three different tiers of its proposed premium subscription. The information came from the company CEO Linda Yaccarino in a meeting with debt holders as she updated the bankers about the finances and revenue of X, as per a report. It was also highlighted that the testing was done to increase the revenue collection from the subscription funnel. Additionally, X also stated during the meeting that the advertisers are returning back to the platform, although with smaller budgets.According to a report by Bloomberg, the current premium subscription that costs $7.99 will be split into three different tiers, namely, Basic, Standard and Plus, as conveyed by a source that attended the event. The main aim of this move is to woo those users who were perh...
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Search still on for alternatives to Musk-owned Twitter
2May By adminNo Comments
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Search still on for alternatives to Musk-owned Twitter

[ad_1] Since Elon Musk took over Twitter in October, users irked by the platform's new regime have vowed to move their online presence elsewhere, though this has proved harder than some had banked on.Here is a list of some of the contenders to dethrone Twitter as the go-to website for the media, officials and celebrities. - Bluesky, Dorsey's Twitter clone -Bluesky was created by Twitter's co-founder Jack Dorsey and is now the talk of Silicon Valley, leaving those in the know scrambling to secure an invite to join the app that is still at the testing phase. The platform looks and feels like Twitter as its backers want users from the Elon Musk-owned site to feel at home, though posts on the app are referred to as "skeets", not tweets.Bluesky was actually created as a Twitter side project ...
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Twitter celebs balk at paying Elon Musk for blue check mark
28Mar By adminNo Comments
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Twitter celebs balk at paying Elon Musk for blue check mark

[ad_1] William Shatner, Monica Lewinsky and other prolific Twitter commentators — some household names, others little-known journalists — could soon be losing the blue check marks that helped verify their identity on the social media platform.They could get the marks back by paying up to $11 a month. But some longtime users, including 92-year-old Star Trek legend Shatner, have balked at buying the premium service championed by Twitter's billionaire owner and chief executive Elon Musk. After months of delay, Musk is gleefully promising that Friday is the deadline for celebrities, journalists and others who'd been verified for free to pony up or lose their legacy status. "It will be glorious," he tweeted Monday, in response to a Twitter user who noted that Friday is also April Fools Day.A...
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Twitter offers new annual plan for subscription service
19Jan By adminNo Comments
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Twitter offers new annual plan for subscription service

[ad_1] Twitter to offer a new annual plan for subscription service. This will be a discounted price compared to its monthly price. Twitter Inc said on Wednesday it was offering an annual plan for its subscription service called Twitter Blue, which includes its sought-after "verified" badge, at a discount to its monthly price. Users can subscribe to the service for an annual price of $84, instead of a monthly subscription price of $8 on the web and $11 on Apple devices. The discount would be available in countries including United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Japan, New Zealand and Australia, Twitter said. Since billionaire Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter for $44 billion last year, he has brought changes to the company including new subscription plans for Twitter Blue. The b...
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Twitter Blue Service Is Back, Including ‘Verified’ Badges
13Dec By adminNo Comments
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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...
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Twitter relaunching subscriber service after debacle
12Dec By adminNo Comments
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Twitter relaunching subscriber service after debacle

[ad_1] Twitter would let users buy subscriptions to Twitter Blue to get a blue checkmark and access special features starting Monday. Twitter is once again attempting to launch its premium service, a month after a previous attempt failed. The social media company said Saturday it would let users buy subscriptions to Twitter Blue to get a blue checkmark and access special features starting Monday. The blue checkmark was originally given to companies, celebrities, government entities and journalists verified by the platform. After Elon Musk bought Twitter for $44 billion in October, he launched a service granting blue checks to suspended the service days after its launch. The relaunched service will cost $8 a month for web users and $11 a month for iPhone users. Twitter says subs...
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Twitter Blue relaunching today; subscribe on iPhone for $11
12Dec By adminNo Comments
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Twitter Blue relaunching today; subscribe on iPhone for $11

[ad_1] Twitter Blue will be relaunching on Monday. You can subscribe to it on the web for $8 per month or on the iPhone (iOS) for $11 per month. Twitter Blue will be relaunching on Monday, December 12 with increase in its prices for the iPhone users. In order to get the blue check mark you will now have to pay $8 per month for Twitter Blue web subscription. While on iPhone or iOS devices it is available for $11 per month. Informing about the same, Twitter tweeted on Sunday, "we're relaunching @TwitterBlue on Monday – subscribe on web for $8/month or on iOS for $11/month to get access to subscriber-only features, including the blue checkmark."Once you subscribe for Twitter Blue with a verified phone number and it is approved, you will get a blue checkmark next to your name. Other than ...
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