Elon Musk seeks $20 per month from verified Twitter users in exchange for keeping ‘blue tick’: Reports

Elon Musk, the new owner of Twitter, has indicated that the platform’s verification procedure, which adds a blue tick next to the profile name, is being modified. When a user complained that he wasn’t given the desired blue tick despite having a sizable following, Musk revealed the strategy in a tweet. The Verge reports that the firm will soon start charging customers for the blue tick, even if the exact specifics of the new verification method are still unknown.

The blue tick will only be available to users of Twitter Blue, a membership service that offers extra functionality like edit and undo tweets. According to reports, the business also intends to raise the blue fee to $19.99. (Which is Roughly Rs 1,600). Additionally, verified users will have 90 days to sign up for Twitter Blue in order to maintain the blue tick on their profile. It is still unclear whether Twitter will modify the verification requirements to make them stricter or more flexible.

According to the media reports, Twitter engineers are given a deadline to redesign the Twitter verification process, or they risk losing their employment. Even though Musk officially acquired Twitter just one week ago, he has already let go of a number of important employees. Former CEO Parag Agrawal, who assumed the position in late November of last year, is on the list. Other well-known individuals, like Twitter’s CFO Ned Segal and its director of policy Vijaya Gadda, were also let go.

The report further indicates that, the company has set November 7 as the deadline for the staff members working on the new verification .

The details of Musk’s intention to cut the Twitter staff in the upcoming days are still uncertain, according to a separate report. As according to earlier reports, the Tesla CEO may fire 75% of Twitter employees in order to save operating expenses. It was later refuted, though.