The price of the Twitter Blue subscription, the premium option of the social networkhas been unexpectedly updated by Elon Musk after buying the company, going from the initially rumored $18 to $7.99 per month that would constitute the new price.
Only Twitter Blue users would have their accounts verified
The core of this decision has to do with the controversial reception of identity checks of accounts, which would only be possible for users of the paid version of the application, which had also increased its price, which is currently four dollars.
But this option would not be available immediately. Twitter’s product manager, Esther Crawford, has confirmed this. although it is recognized that some users can discover from this Sunday certain changes that are being made in real time on Twitter’s premium platform.
In any case, it seems that Twitter is going to wait for the midterm by-elections that take place this Tuesday in the United States to begin offering its users the possibility of subscribing to the new premium modality of Twitter Blue, which would mean a slight delay compared to the initially proposed date that would have been held on Monday, November 7.
The decision was based on the foresight to rule out potential service outages at such a delicate moment, the day immediately before the elections, as well as to avoid the possibility of users taking advantage of the occasion to impersonate politicians and rulers. at a time as critical as election day.
However, Jen Easterly, director of CISA (Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency), has stated that this federal agency has not detected “credible or specific information on efforts aimed at compromising or affecting” the holding of election day but it has warned about the risks of disinformation campaigns from foreign actors.
