News & Reviews:   Twitter Blue

Twitter recently announced that free Twitter users will have more limitations put upon them, namely, more daily limits on the number of DMs or Direct Messages that they can send. According to an official tweet from Twitter Support, the move is to help reduce spam, but it seems like another incentive to sign up for the verified version of Twitter, which is Twitter Blue.

Twitter has decided that its paying customers should be rewarded with more. Elon Musk has been adding increasingly more features to the platform's Twitter Blue subscription plan, and the latest one is more than a bit head-scratch inducing.

Since the takeover by Elon Musk, Twitter has been implementing various changes that many users of the platform are now a fan of. Well, the company has announced yet another change recently, this time the increase of the tweet limit to 10,000 characters for paid users.

Twitter will be making yet another change since the takeover by billionaire Elon Musk, this time in regard to recommended tweets. Taking to, well, Twitter, Musk announced that starting 15 April, only verified accounts would be recommended on the “For You” page on the platform.

As you know, Twitter is the first company with the concept of verified social media accounts. Meta decided to jump on the bandwagon and started testing its Meta Verified in Australia and New Zealand last month. Now, the company is ready for the service to go live.

Twitter Blue has been an on-and-off-topic for a couple of months ever since Elon Musk took over Twitter, but it looks like the company is finally knowing what to do with it. Today, Twitter Blue is officially launching and verified Malaysian users would need to pay as low as RM30.75 per month.

It looks like Meta is following in Twitter’s footsteps by introducing a paid verification service on its social media platforms Facebook and Instagram. Dubbed “Meta Verified”, the USD14.99 or ~RM66 on web and USD11.99 or ~RM53 on mobile monthly subscription service is currently being tested in Australia and New Zealand this week.

At the end of last month, Twitter decided to hold off on the relaunch of Twitter Blue. Allegedly, this was because Elon Musk didn't want to pay the 30% cut that the Apple App Store collects from all apps with transactions. However, it looks like the company will relaunch it soon.

Twitter has delayed the relaunch of its Twitter Blue subscription to make various other changes to the service, as well as to avoid paying Apple’s 30 per cent App Store cut. Moreover, the revamped Blue subscription may not be available as an in-app purchase on the Twitter iOS app when it relaunches on the Apple App Store.

Elon Musk might have figured out a solution to solve the Twitter Blue fiasco. The current Twitter CEO says that the company will implement a new manual authentication process, which he described as "painful, but necessary."