Twitter is as soon as once more making an attempt to launch its premium service, a month after a earlier try failed.
The social media firm mentioned on Saturday it could let customers purchase subscriptions to Twitter Blue to get a blue checkmark and entry particular options beginning on Monday.
The blue checkmark was initially given to firms, celebrities, authorities entities and journalists verified by the platform.
After Elon Musk purchased Twitter for $US44 billion in October, he launched a service granting blue checks to anybody keen to pay $US8 a month.
But it was inundated by impostor accounts, together with these impersonating Musk’s companies Tesla and SpaceX, so Twitter suspended the service days after its launch.
The relaunched service will price $US8 ($A12) a month for net customers and $US11 ($A16) a month for iPhone customers.
Twitter says subscribers will see fewer adverts, be capable to publish longer movies and have their tweets featured extra prominently.
Twitter didn’t clarify why Apple customers had been being charged greater than others on the internet however there have been media experiences that the corporate was on the lookout for methods to offset charges charged within the Apple App Store.
