Twitter Blue, what it is for and how it works

Twitter seems determined to make its users shell out some money, whether it’s for signing up for Twitter Blue – the subscription service, which the company has relaunched in recent days – or for buying one of the statuettes depicting the logo of the social network. Twitter Blue represents one of the strategies with which the new owner Elon Musk wants to monetize the platform and shake up the dynamics of the company after the acquisition in April.

For those who are still unclear what you get with the monthly subscription or struggle to understand the meaning of the new colored verification ticks, we have put together everything you need to know.

What do you get with the subscription?

Twitter lets know that the service is currently only available in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom, but that the company plans to extend it to other countries as well. Once you arrive in Italy, to sign up for Twitter Blue you will need to verify the phone number connected to your account and check if your profile is suitable. Currently the service costs $11 a month if you sign up through the iOS store of the iPhone (it is not yet possible to subscribe via Google Play on Android) or $8 a month if you subscribe from a browser. The price difference isn’t unusual for Apple’s App store: YouTube Music, for example, has a similar rate for iOS subscriptions.

The main thing you get by signing up for Twitter Blue is theAttention. After your account has been reviewed, a blue check will be added to your profile. “Splattered on top of replies, mentions, and searches – reads one of the registration page which describes the future advantages of the service -. Tweets from verified users will be prioritized to help fight scams and spam”. The company has stated that among the upcoming functions for subscribers there will be the reduction of advertisements within the app and the ability to share longer video content.

Today, the service guarantees the possibility of editing one’s tweets several times within half an hour of publication, a function that users have been requesting for some time. If longer videos have to wait a little longer, Twitter Blue subscribers can already upload files to their profiles video with a quality of 1080p. Users who haven’t gotten bored with the nftthey can then use their non-fungible tokens as a profile picture.