Twitter to start charging $20 a month for verification badge

Twitter is planning to start charging $20 per month for verification

Elon Musk has given employees their first ultimatum: Meet his deadline to introduce paid verification on Twitter or pack up and leave.

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Verified users would have 90 days to subscribe or lose their verified badge.

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Employees working on the project were told to launch the feature on 7th November 2022, or they will be fired.

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Twitter Blue was launched in June 2021. The subscription is currently priced at $4.99 per month.

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Twitter will add more features, including verification, to bring its subscription up to par with the cost hike.

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Musk had said that the platform could expand or even get rid of the 280-character limit on the platform.

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Musk wants subscriptions to increase to cover up half of the business' total revenue.

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