Twitter Blue Price to Increase to $8 Per Month, Will Include Verification Checkmark and Other New Features

The price of the blue subscription will be $8 per month, an increase of $3 over the current price.

The ability to post longer video and audio clips, as well as half as many ads, is one of the things that will be included in the new service.

Musk implied that the blue checkmark would be used for verification purposes, and that it would only be available to those at risk of identity theft.

There will be some kind of "paywall circumvention" for publishers that are willing to work with the social network, according to Musk.

Twitter’s current lords & peasants system for who has or doesn’t have a blue checkmark is bullshit. Power to the people! Blue for $8/month. — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 1, 2022

It's not clear what that last bit means, but the ad-free access to news sites that were part of the program was ended very suddenly. As of the close of the business day on October 31, ad-free articles would be disabled, as a result of a partnership between MacRumors and the social networking site.

In the email, the team said that resources would be focused on "adding additional value" for members of the service, and that an update to the service would be released in the coming weeks.

The social network has not been profitable in the past. Last Friday, Musk became the new CEO of the company, and he let go of several executives.

Musk has said that he plans to bring back a video service called vine. More than 50 engineers from Musk's company have been moved to work on the new features.