Musk Ruffles Feathers With Twitter’s New Subscription Model for Blue Checkmarks

Elon Musk rolled out a Twitter subscription model on Saturday that asks users to pay $7.99 per month for a blue checkmark, a feature that used to be free and required identity verification. Typically, companies, celebrities, and journalists carry the blue checkmark next to their Twitter username. Musk has flirted with the idea of a costly checkmark since October; he took over the company on October 27. “The sprint to our launch continues but some folks may see us making updates because we are testing and pushing changes in real-time,” tweeted Esther Crawford, who works on Twitter’s early-stage products team,… Read Full Article