This Thursday, the social network Twitter removed the blue label from all those accounts that have refused to pay the $8 monthly fee for Twitter Blue.
This Thursday Twitter started removing the legacy blue checkmarks from user profiles, and famous people, like the Pope Franciscothe co-founder of Microsoft, Bill Gatesand the soccer star Cristiano Ronaldothey lost their verified status.
Yesterday the social network removed the blue label from those accounts that have refused to pay the $8 monthly fee for Twitter Blue, a subscription established by Musk that allows its owners, in addition to having a blue checkedit tweets, write longer messages and appear preferentially in the “feed” over other accounts that do not pay for it.
Hours later, Musk announced that he would personally pay the monthly fee to maintain the blue label to three specific people who had refused to pay it: actor William Shatner, basketball player LeBron James and author Stephen King.
Only 0.2% of network users pay for Twitter Blue. In March, Twitter Blue had around 116,000 confirmed subscriptions across the web, up 138% from the previous month, according to Similarweb.
Source: Eitb
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