Elon Musk Relaunches Twitter Blue After Controversy Over Fake Account
The service costs $8 per month for people who use Twitter on the web and $11 per month for people who sign up on an Apple device.
Elon Musk's first attempt at a Twitter subscription service was ruined by a bunch of fake accounts. On Monday, he tried again.
The first try happened last month, just 10 days after Musk bought the platform for $44 billion and laid off half the company's employees.
The reintroduction of Twitter Blue in a few countries, notably the United States, coincides with the Tesla
The service costs $8 per month for people who use Twitter on the web and $11 per month for people who sign up on an Apple device.
When Twitter Blue first came out, many fake accounts pretending to be celebrities or companies caused a lot of trouble.
This time, the company made its verification process stronger by making Twitter review it before it could get the coveted blue check mark.
A blue checkmark on a Twitter account, which shows that it has been verified, used to be free, but only for organisations.
Musk is said to have gotten rid of Twitter's Trust and Safety Council on the same day that the new site went live.
Twitter told council members in an email that it is rethinking how it uses "external insights" in its work and has decided that the council is "not the best way to do this."