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| Musk plans to verify Twitter accounts for a monthly fee |
Less than 24 hours after completing a $44 billion acquisition of the company, new Twitter head Elon Musk decided to change the homepage.
Citing employees who requested anonymity, The Verge reported that Musk asked unregistered users who visit the twitter.com homepage to be redirected to the Explore page that shows them their most popular tweets and messages.
Prior to this change, users who were not logged into the home page were presented with a page asking them to create an account so they could view the tweets.
In a major Twitter change, Musk, who is ranked as the richest man alive, not only asked for changes to the site's homepage but also asked employees to change the name of the paid subscription feature from Super Follows to Subscriptions in an emergency Twitter update on mobile. to change. Request.
He also talked about using his satellite internet service Starlink (also its own SpaceX) to bring Twitter to countries that currently don't have access to the service.
In Twitter's most notable change, Musk asked employees to increase the price of its paid subscription service Twitter Blue from $4.99 to $19.99 and offer users additional functionality such as account authentication, according to people familiar with the matter and internal sources. . The messages he saw. Verge website.
According to The Verge, the new program gives verified account holders 90 days to sign up for the service or lose their blue verification badge. On Sunday, project staff had until November 7, otherwise they would be fired.
Musk made it clear months before the acquisition that he wanted to change the way Twitter accounts are verified and managed by bots. "The entire review process has now been updated," he wrote on Twitter on Sunday.
It is worth noting that Twitter Blue was widely launched about a year ago to display ad-free articles from some publishers along with other app changes such as: b. Screen icon in a different color.
In the quarters that Twitter reported its earnings after launching the service as a public company, advertising still made up the bulk of its revenue. Musk aims to increase subscriptions to half of the company's total revenue.