Elon Musk Says Twitter to Charge $8 per Month for Blue Checkmark Verification — Plans to Reward Content Creators

Tesla, Spacex, and Twitter brag Elon Musk has decided to complaint $8 per period for users of the societal media level to person a bluish checkmark. “This volition besides springiness Twitter a gross watercourse to reward contented creators,” Musk explained, adding that “it is the lone mode to decision the bots and trolls.” However, galore Twitter users are unhappy astir the announced charge.

Twitter to Charge $8 per Month for Account Verification

Tesla CEO and Twitter brag Elon Musk announced connected Twitter Tuesday that helium plans to complaint $8 per period for Twitter users to person a bluish verification checkmark that is presently free. His announcement came aft respective days of treatment connected Twitter pursuing his acquisition of the societal media platform.

In a followed-up tweet, helium explained that the terms volition beryllium “adjusted by state proportionate to purchasing powerfulness parity.”

Musk further elaborate that for $8 a month, users volition besides get “priority successful replies, mentions & search, which is indispensable to decision spam/scam, quality to station agelong video & audio, fractional arsenic galore ads,” and “paywall bypass for publishers consenting to enactment with us.”

The caller Twitter main added:

This volition besides springiness Twitter a gross watercourse to reward contented creators.

Some radical said they welcomed the thought of Twitter paying contented creators. One idiosyncratic wrote: “Creator payments are immense to incentivize contented creation. Love this idea.” Musk replied: “Absolutely essential. Creators request to marque a living!”

Before helium settled connected the $8-a-month charge, Musk considered charging $20 per month. However, galore Twitter users reacted negatively to the idea. Famous fabrication writer Stephen King said helium would permission the level if the complaint gets instituted. Musk replied explaining that Twitter cannot trust wholly connected advertisers and volition request to wage the bills somehow. He besides stressed that “it is the lone mode to decision the bots and trolls.”

The pro-bitcoin CEO of Microstrategy, Michael Saylor, commented connected Musk’s thought of charging $8 a month, tweeting: “The bots won’t similar this.” The Tesla CEO replied:

Yes, this volition destruct the bots. If a paid Blue relationship engages successful spam/scam, that relationship volition beryllium suspended. Essentially, this raises the outgo of transgression connected Twitter by respective orders of magnitude.

The existent Twitter verification process is free, but the relationship indispensable beryllium “authentic, notable and active” to person a bluish checkmark, according to the company’s website arsenic of Nov. 1.

Nonetheless, immoderate radical are unhappy astir the $8/month charge. “$8 for thing that isn’t adjacent ad-free is truthful funny,” 1 idiosyncratic wrote. Another explained that his fig 1 regularisation connected the net that has “never been successfully breached is to complaint for thing that was antecedently free.” A 3rd idiosyncratic wrote: “Soon it’s gonna beryllium chill to not person the checkmark.”

Philip Lewis, a elder beforehand leafage exertion astatine the Huffpost, opined:

I deliberation this is simply a cardinal misunderstanding of however verification is expected to work. A bluish cheque has been perceived arsenic a presumption awesome for immoderate clip erstwhile truly it’s conscionable expected to archer you if a leafage is authentic oregon not.

Would you wage $8 a period for a bluish checkmark connected Twitter? And, what bash you deliberation of Musk’s program to reward contented creators? Let america cognize successful the comments conception below.

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