You will also pay Twitter (leaving freedom would have been too easy …)
With shareholders constantly pushing Jack Dorsey to do better to monetize Twitter, it was only a matter of time before the social media network offered a paid subscription model. Now, it looks like the service has a name: Twitter Blue.
On Saturday, Gizmodo reported that the service would cost $ 2.99 per month and would allow "users to cancel their tweets and create bookmark collections, among other features." The social media network could also enter a tiered subscription model, which could unlock additional paid features and offer a more clutter-free environment for users who are willing to pay higher prices. App researcher Jane Manchun Wong tweeted the details over the weekend.
Twitter is calling their upcoming Subscription Service “Twitter Blue”, priced at $ 2.99 / month for now, including paid features like:
Undo Tweets: https://t.co/CrqnzIPcOH
Collections: https://t.co/qfFfAXHp1o pic.twitter.com/yyMStpCkpr
– Jane Manchun Wong (@wongmjane) May 15, 2021
Last week, Twitter acquired Scroll, a paid subscription service that suppresses ads on participating websites. Between the Twitter acquisition and announcement of the closure of Nuzzel, a news aggregator acquired by Scroll in 2019 that became popular for sending users a daily newsletter of top stories in their Twitter feed which is expected to be replaced by the new service. a subscription to Twitter itself. . When we inquired about Wong's tweets on Saturday, a Twitter spokesperson declined to comment.
Recall, as part of their effort to monetize, Twitter was also told this month to experiment with adding a feature called a "tip jar" that would allow users to send and receive small amounts of money. Dorsey was very reserved about the subscription model, stating last summer that it was in the “very early stages. Offering a paid subscription model would be just the latest in a series of new changes to the platform it has tested. A date for a soft-launch or release has yet to be determined. After all, a few million American users have left after the ban on President Trump and the censorship of social media in recent times. Freedom doesn't just cost $ 2.99 a month.
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