You Will Pay USD 20 Monthly To Get Twitter Verification Badge

Twitter may soon roll out a verification fee of about $20 as part of a premium service under Elon Musk’s leadership. Musk, who took over the social media platform last week, plans to raise its premium subscription called Twitter Blue to $19.99 a month subject to change.

“The whole verification process is being revamped right now,” Musk tweeted on Sunday.

Currently, Twitter Blue users are charged $4.99 per month with the platform providing additional features like ad-free articles and a home screen icon that has a different color.

Existing verified users have 90 days to subscribe to the new Twitter Blue after its launch or they will lose their checkmarks. For a $19.99 subscription, Twitter may also offer paid verification and this would be the first time when the users would be able to purchase the “Blue Tick’’.

The new Twitter boss has been keen on making half of the company’s overall revenue through subscriptions. Before owning the platform, musk had hinted that the platform may charge a ‘’slight’’ fee for commercial and government accounts while remaining free for casual users.

“Twitter will always be free for casual users, but maybe a slight cost for commercial/government users,” Musk said in a tweet. “Some revenue is better than none!” he added in another tweet in May.

He disclosed his plan to enhance the platform with new features. This includes features to grow business revenue, including new ways to make money out of tweets that contain important information or go viral.

Musk has also advocated user-friendly adjustments to the service, such as an edit button and defeating “spam bots” that send overwhelming amounts of unwanted tweets.

The billionaire also said he would make Twitter transparent about how tweets are promoted or demoted and wanted its software to be publicly available for critique. concerning a potential exodus of users, Musk said: “It’s a free country,” Certainly if anyone doesn’t feel comfortable with that, they will on their own accord go somewhere else. That’s fine,” he said.

Since acquiring Twitter, the billionaire moved swiftly in slashing the staff. On his first day at the company, he fired the top management including chief executive officer (CEO) Parag Agrawal and Vijaya Gadde, the legal affairs and policy chief. On Sunday, Musk also reportedly told its employees that they must meet the deadline or “pack up and leave”, The Verge reported.