People around the world can now pay for Twitter, as the company has announced that its Twitter Blue subscription service is now available globally. While the subscription has been quite available before (you can sign up at almost 50 countries), the expanded availability reflects the company’s drive to make Twitter Blue an increasingly important part of the service.
However, part of those efforts includes making promises you haven’t yet kept. The company’s Ad Tweets list some of the benefits of Twitter Blue, such as getting a checkmark, the ability to write longer tweets, getting priority ranking in conversations, and seeing half as many ads. Those last two, however, have yet to be implemented. When you click the link to sign up for the service, they still show up as “Coming Soon.”
CEO and owner Elon Musk has been promising prioritized sorting since November, calling the feature “essential to beating spam/scam”. Yet despite (or perhaps because of) Musk’s push for employees to work in “harsh” conditions, it hasn’t materialized. The same goes for several of his other promises: In February, he announced that Twitter was starting to share ad revenue with Blue subscribers, something that hadn’t started happening more than a month later, and he promised to open up the company’s algorithm. in the week of February 27. That didn’t happen, but now he is promising Which will happen on March 31.
The company also announced on Thursday which has started accepting requests from government accounts and organizations that want a gray check mark. Your documentation says Accounts that are eligible for this include heads of state, members of congress or parliament, institutional accounts at the headquarters level, regional level and country level. (For example, him National Park Service has a gray check, just like The president of the United States.)
The gray checks, along with the gold checks for businesses, are intended to help clear up confusion caused by the meaning of the blue check that goes from “a person or organization that Twitter has verified” to “a person or organization that Twitter has verified.” verified or someone.” who pays for Blue.” Musk Has promised to get rid of the “legacy blue checks” that indicated verification, saying that “they are really corrupted”, but so far that hasn’t happened either. Clicking on someone with a blue check that is not paid by Blue now displays the message “This is a legacy verified account. It may or may not be noticeable.”
Update March 23, 4:58 pm ET: Updated with information on gray checkmark apps.
