Twitter launches $8 monthly subscription with blue checkmark
Twitter has launched a subscription service for $8 a month that includes a blue checkmark now given to verified accounts as new owner Elon Musk overhauls the platform’s verification system
By AP News
Published - Nov 05, 2022, 03:28 PM ET
Last Updated - Jun 23, 2023, 07:23 PM EDT
NEW YORK (AP) — Twitter (NYSE: TWTR) on Saturday launched a subscription service for $8 a month that includes a blue checkmark now given to verified accounts as new owner Elon Musk overhauls the platform’s verification system.
The change represents the end of Twitter’s current verification system, which was launched in 2009 to prevent impersonations of high-profile accounts such as celebrities and politicians. Twitter before the overhaul had about 423,000 verified accounts, many of them rank-and-file journalists from around the globe that the company verified regardless of how many followers they had.
