Elon Musk Will Power Twitter Customers to Pay for Verification: Report

After lower than per week as “Chief Twit,” Elon Musk is pushing for the social platform’s first main change – beginning with its verification service.

The CEO is reportedly forcing his workers to place a paywall behind Twitter’s coveted blue checkmark. In the event that they don’t comply, they are going to be fired from the corporate.

• Musk’s plan is particularly to quadruple the price of Twitter Blue – a month-to-month subscription service that gives further options at Twitter – from $4.99 to $19.99. The brand new, dearer subscription would even be required to confirm its customers. 
• In keeping with The Verge, customers who’re already verified could be given ninety days to subscribe to Twitter, Blue, or else lose their subscription. 
• On Sunday, workers have been advised that the mission should be carried out by November seventh, or else they’ll be fired. That very same day, Musk clarified that the verification course of was already being “revamped.”
• American web entrepreneur Jason Calacanis ran a Twitter ballot on Sunday asking followers how a lot they’d be prepared to pay to remain subscribed to the platform. After overwhelmingly stating that they “wouldn’t pay”, Musk called the ballot “fascinating.” 
• Former Twitter COO Anthony Noto, nonetheless, believes nearly all of respondents aren’t being totally sincere.
• “None of those solutions are excessive sufficient,” he said. “Individuals can pay $49/mth & in the event that they gained’t they need to not have been verified, to start with.”
• Musk promised to fight Twitter’s spam bot drawback earlier than assuming firm possession, whereas additionally making the platform extra welcoming to free speech. He’s already fired the agency’s high executives and is planning extra layoffs to come back.