Twitter Blue: An important update, if you’re thinking about signing up for the verified badge
Twitter began rolling out one of the most significant product changes in the company's history over the weekend, with the launch of an update to its Twitter Blue subscription offering. It's a rollout that had quickly become a hallmark of new owner Elon Musk's turbulent first week in charge, as he races to find cost savings and fresh revenue to offset his new company's dire financial straits (which he's characterized, via a tweet, as equivalent to a loss of $4 million a day).
Enter a now more-expensive Twitter Blue. After leaving the Twitterati aghast with his initial and half-baked plan to hike the $4.99/month product to $20, Musk settled on $7.99 -- with new benefits including blue-check status for anyone who pays, plus an assortment of other perks for power users like prioritized replies and fewer ads. And so there it was, in the App Store over the weekend, following draconian layoffs at Twitter that resulted in several thousand people leaving the company: Version 9.34.3 of the Twitter app, including the Twitter Blue changes.
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