Last month, Twitter Inc. launched the new Pay-for-blue-tick program, Twitter Blue for $7.99 per month for iOS users.
However, just days after its launch, Twitter paused its premium subscription service, after users started exploiting it to impersonate brands and famous people creating a lot of chaos on the popular micro-blogging platform.
Back then, Twitters new boss Elon Musk said that he is holding off relaunching Blue Verified until there is high confidence in stopping impersonation.
Now, the social media company has announced that it will be relaunching its subscription service Twitter Blue on Monday, December 12 but it will cost more for Apple users.
Well begin replacing that official label with a gold checkmark for businesses, and later in the week a grey checkmark for government and multilateral accounts.
Weve added a review step before applying a blue checkmark to an account as one of our new steps to combat impersonation (which is against the Twitter Rules, said Twitter product manager Esther Crawford in aseparate thread.
it concluded.
While its unclear why Twitter is charging extra for Apple users, it is likely due to the 30 percent commission that Apple Inc. takes on revenues from iOS apps on its App Store.
Previously, Musk claimed Apple threatened to block Twitter from its App Store and also criticized the commission cut, calling it a hidden 30 percent tax on the Internet.
However, after the following meeting with Apple CEO Tim Cook, he tweeted that Twitter being removed from Apples app store was a misunderstanding and the issue has been resolved.
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