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This Article is From Nov 13, 2022

When Is Twitter's $8 Blue Service Back? Elon Musk Replies

Twitter recently paused its $8 blue check subscription service as fake accounts mushroomed.

When Is Twitter's $8 Blue Service Back? Elon Musk Replies
Twitter's blue check mark was previously reserved for verified accounts. (File)

Twitter Blue will probably "come back end of next week", billionaire owner Elon Musk said in a tweet on Saturday. Twitter on Friday paused its recently announced $8 blue check subscription service as fake accounts mushroomed.

The coveted blue check mark was previously reserved for verified accounts of politicians, famous personalities, journalists and other public figures. But a subscription option, open to anyone prepared to pay, was rolled out earlier this week to help Twitter grow revenue as Musk fights to retain advertisers

Several users reported on Friday that the new subscription option for the blue verification check mark had disappeared, while a source told Reuters the offering has been dropped.

"To combat impersonation, we've added an 'Official' label to some accounts," Twitter's support account - which has the "official" tag - tweeted on Friday.

The label was originally introduced on Wednesday - but "killed" by Musk just hours later.

On Thursday, in his first companywide email, Musk warned that Twitter would not be able to "survive the upcoming economic downturn" if it failed to boost subscription revenue to offset falling advertising income, three people who saw the message told Reuters.

(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)

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