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| Twitter launches blue subscription service in new countries |
Twitter has launched its monthly subscription service, Twitter Blue, in six new countries and is trying to attract more users to the service, which will help increase sales.
The list of new countries includes: the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, France, Germany, Italy, Portugal, and Spain, bringing the total number of countries in which the service is available to 12 countries, including: the United States of America, Canada, and Japan. New Zealand, the United Kingdom and Australia.
The company also launched a new Spaces tab with curated stations for live and recorded spaces, and stations for podcasts.
Non-Twitter Blue subscribers already have access to the Spaces tab, but it mainly shows ongoing live audio sessions.
Twitter is also bringing back themed stations that categorize rooms by topic. The company started testing the feature last August before Elon Musk bought the company.
The company said the podcast is now only available to Twitter Blue subscribers and select Android and iOS users.
It should be noted that the expansion of the Twitter Blue service was not surprising as the company aims to generate more revenue in every possible way. Last month, the company made the paid service available to Android users after previously introducing paid services to web and iOS users.
While Twitter announced on Thursday that it will end free access to its API starting February 9, recipients of the service will have to pay a monthly fee, which was not announced, but Elon Musk posted a tweet saying: The basic plan can cost $ 100 per month, which The article says it can be prohibitive for some independent developers, students, and researchers.