After playing around with several Twitter blue verification pricing from $20 now to $7.99 per month, the company has made it officially available in its app for iPhones and iPads. Twitter owner Elon Musk began hyping the new Blue just days after taking over the company at the end of October, promising features like verification, priority in replies, mentions, and search, and “half as many ads,” and now you can actually get the new subscription.
Right now, for people who subscribe to the new package, their account instantly adds a verified check, but the other new benefits aren’t available yet. According to a support page, “only accounts subscribed to Twitter Blue on iOS on or after November 9, 2022 are eligible for the blue checkmark moving forward.” It’s unclear when the new subscription will become available for users on Android, Twitter web, or in countries where Twitter Blue wasn’t already available. And new Twitter accounts created on or after Wednesday aren’t eligible to sign up for Blue “at this time,” Twitter says.
On the signup form on iOS, the $7.99 per month price is positioned as a “limited time offer.” For the moment, you can’t sign up on the web — you have to sign up on iOS. And some users already subscribed to Blue are reporting they have to subscribe again and specifically to the new tier.
Twitter is now distinguishing between accounts that were verified by paying or from the previous system, and you can see who was verified which way by clicking the check mark on their profile. And for accounts verified before the new Blue, Twitter says that “legacy verified accounts also may be taken away at any time for any reason at all by Twitter.” If you are a legacy verified account that doesn’t subscribe to Blue, it’s unclear if or when you might lose your check mark.
