The company explained that subscribers will not get the blue checkmark immediately as a review will be performed by its team to ‘ensure subscribed accounts meet eligibility criteria’. — Reuters
Local pricing for Twitter Blue, the platform’s opt-in paid monthly subscription service which gives the user’s account a blue checkmark and access to certain features, is now available.
The subscription costs RM35 monthly for web users while those subscribing on mobile, namely Android or iOS, will pay RM50 monthly. Annual subscriptions are priced at RM369 for web and RM519.90 for iOS and Android respectively.
According to Twitter, all subscribers will get access to exclusive features such as Edit Tweet (user get a 30-minute window to make a limited number of changes such as tagging someone or adding updates), colourful app themes, longer video uploads (up to 60 minutes on web or 10 minutes on mobile compared to four minutes for non-subscribers) and longer tweets with up to 4,000 characters (non-subscribers are limited to 280 characters).
Most recently, the company also announced that only Twitter Blue subscribers will get SMS two-factor authentication. Non-subscribers will no longer be permitted to use SMS two-factor authentication after March 20 and the company has encouraged them to use an authentication app or security key method instead.
However, the company explained that subscribers will not get the blue checkmark immediately as a review will be performed by its team to “ensure subscribed accounts meet eligibility criteria”.
Its eligibility criteria include that the user must have a complete user name and profile photo along with being an active user in the past 30 days. The account must also be older than 90 days upon subscription.
Twitter Blue was first introduced in 2021, then as a subscription service with limited features such as Undo Tweet (allowing users to preview their tweet for 30 seconds before it goes up) and Bookmark folders to organise content.
After finalising his takeover of the company last year, new CEO Elon Musk announced a revamped version of Twitter Blue where the blue checkmark became an exclusive feature.
