What does the new Twitter Blue offer and where is it available

Nov. 10 (Portaltic/EP) –

The new subscription twitter monthly payment ‘TwitterBlue’which adds a mark of blue check to the account and offers early access to new features premium is now available exclusively for the system iOS in United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and United Kingdomin exchange for $7.99.

Thus, the changes that the owner of the platform had already announced were carried out this Wednesday, Elon Muskincreasing the price from $4.99 to almost $8 and including UK among the countries that can enjoy this service.

As it has been doing until now, Twitter Blue includes Additional functions which only your subscribers can access. Among them, that of customize the icon of the ‘app’ itself and the theme of your account, activate the Reading mode or create folders of saved items from the Profile, as well as gain early access to features in testing, such as the tweet editing. The subscription also offers a quantity minor ad.

One of the main changes is the blue check mark meaning. From now on, this badge will no longer only refer to verified accounts for being “active, remarkable and authentic”, also will indicate that the account has a active Twitter Blue subscription, as the company explains on the page dedicated to subscription.

Therefore, as stated by the person in charge of the redesign of Twitter Blue, Esther Crawfordthis Wednesday, there will be a new label with which they will identify the official accounts which will complement the current blue badge.

This badge will be complemented by a label of ‘official count’, as he has shared on his Twitter profile and details the Twitter Blue page. In this way, it will be possible to distinguish which accounts have obtained verification by means of subscription or which have been verified as public figures, government accounts or multilateral organizations.

Facing the rest of accounts that are not official but have the blue badge, Twitter allows know the difference between the verification by subscription and that granted by the platform by doing click the blue checkmarkwhere an informative message will be displayed describing what type of account it is and the reasons.

PRIORITY VERIFIED NOTIFICATIONS

Elon Musk has added another formula to the platform which is to add priority verified notifications. This feature allows users to have a new section where they can see notifications only from verified accounts.

As explained in the help Centerthese changes are designed to “help reduce fake and unreliable accounts”, as well as to promote a “higher quality” where people can “join and participate safely” on the platform.

TEMPORARY EXCLUSIVITY WITH IOS

From the platform it has been notified that subscribers who They already used Twitter Blue on iOS, they must update their payment at the highest price to receive a blue checkmark and continue to be part of Twitter Blue. Otherwise, it will unsubscribe with a notice.

As for the users That subscribed on the web or on AndroidTwitter has specified that for the time being no upgrade option. In addition, he has explained that until the new Twitter Blue is available on these platforms, subscribers may continue to use this service until their current billing period ends. After that, your subscriptions will be canceled with prior notice.

In this sense, the platform has also insisted that new accounts created after November 9 of this year will not be able to access Twitter Blue for now. It also does not support new subscribers from Android and web.