Twitter has announced that starting this Monday, December 12, its premium subscription system, called Twitter Blue, will be available worldwide again. after verification and improvement by its developers.
“We are relaunching Twitter Blue on Monday (…) subscribe to access exclusive features for followers, including the blue tick,” the social network said.
They explained that among the improvements that those who pay for this subscription will receive will be the ability to have a tweet edit button, the ability to post videos in 1080p Full HD., in addition to being able to get blue verification. In the case of this last element, they specify that it will only be available after the account has gone through the verification process.
Twitter also reported that will begin rolling out gold verification to all business accountsand at the end of this week government accounts and multilateral organizations will receive a gray background check.
“Subscribers will be able to change their ID, display name, or profile photo, but if they do so, they will temporarily lose the blue checkmark until their account is verified again,” they recalled.
Why will Twitter Blue be more expensive on iOS?
Twitter Blue’s return announcement came as a surprise, with the company saying that users who pay to access it from the web or from Android devices will only have to pay $8 per month.bye those making them from an iOS device will have to pay $11..
That price difference is almost 30%, which is the same percentage that Twitter would have to pay to Apple to be able to complete these types of transactions and continue to be available on the App Store. It means that the social network decided to inflate the price in order to continue to receive a new source of income in full, without having to reduce their income to pay Apple..
Keep in mind that while Google also requires a percentage of the total amount of transactions made from apps available on the Play Store, it’s only 15%, which is half of what it charges for iOS apps. .
Earlier, Elon Musk himself publicly complained about this practice, calling it an Internet tax that Google and Apple applied, and no one could stop them.
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Source: La Opinion
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