Elon Musk’s $8 Twitter Blue subscription launches again on Monday

As reported beforehand, the subscription will value $8 monthly to buy on the net or $11 monthly through the iOS App Retailer to make up for the as much as 30 % fee Apple takes off of in-app purchases. This time, anybody paying for Blue who needs to show a “verified” checkmark on their profile might want to register a telephone quantity first, and altering your “deal with, show identify or profile picture” will take away the label till your account is reviewed once more.

In a thread on Twitter, the corporate says subscribers will get entry to the blue profile checkmark together with a lot of options, together with the flexibility to edit tweets, add 1080p movies, and entry reader mode. The corporate lists fewer advertisements and prioritization in search and replies as “coming quickly.”

Esther Crawford, the product supervisor at Twitter, says the company’s including the telephone verification requirement earlier than customers are granted a blue checkmark to fight impersonation.