Twitter will start charging $20 per Month for verification

Now he has TwitterElon Musk has issued his first ultimatum for employees: meet his deadline to implement paid verification via Twitter or pack up, and leave.

The directive is to change Twitter Blue, the company’s An optional $4.99/month subscription that unlocks more featuresAccording to people familiar, the subscription will also verify users. The Verge. Twitter plans to charge $19.99 per month for its new Twitter Blue subscription. The current plan would allow verified users to subscribe for $19.99 within 90 days or they would lose their blue checkmark. On Sunday, employees working on the project were informed that they must meet a November 7th deadline to launch the feature. If they don’t, they will be fired.

Musk made it clear that he wanted to change the way Twitter verifies accounts, and how Twitter handles bots in the months before his acquisition. Sunday’s announcement was He tweeted: “The whole verification process is being revamped right now.”

Subscribe to Twitter Blue Launched almost a full year agoThis allows you to see ad-free articles by some publishers, and to make other changes to the app like a different home screen icon. Twitter’s earnings were not reported as a public company for the first quarter after the debut. Advertising was the main source of the company’s revenue. Musk is keen on growing subscriptions to become half of the company’s overall revenue.

Updated October 30th, 2009 at 9:25 PM ET Added detail that existing verified users will lose their checkmark in 90 days if they don’t subscribe to the new Twitter Blue after it launches.