This Thursday, the social network Twitter removed the blue label from all those accounts that refused to pay the $8 monthly fee for Twitter Blue.
This Thursday Twitter started removing the obsolete blue check marks from user profiles and famous people, such as 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 the accounts that refused to pay the $8 monthly fee for Twitter Blue, a subscription from Musk that allows owners, in addition to a blue diamondedit tweets, write longer posts and preferably appear in the “feed” above other accounts that don’t pay for it.
Hours later, Musk announced that he would personally pay the monthly fee to keep 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 it Twitter blue. In March, Twitter Blue had about 116,000 confirmed subscriptions across the web, up 138% from the previous month, according to Similarweb.
Source: EITB
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