Elon Musk may be reconsidering the move to charge $20 a month for verified badges after users trash idea

One of Elon Musk’s initial plans for Twitter was to ensure that at least half of Twitter’s revenues came from subscriptions. To that effect, Twitter planned that they would start charging $20 per month from users for their verified badge, or the Blue Tick. Basically, this mean that anyone who wanted to get a blue tick next to their name on Twitter could do so, by buying the privilege.

Existing verified account holders had 90 days to enrol into the programme, after which, the;r verified status would be taken away. Naturally, this did not sit well with a number of users, many of whom voiced their opinions on the platform.

Multibillionaire tech bro has let his big mouth and ego trap him into overpaying by 3x to buy a problematic platform in the worst deal of all time, and now he wants to charge $240/year (N192k) to keep a blue tick on verified user profiles.

LOL pls take ithttps://t.co/Sqrx5chZJy

— David Hundeyin (@DavidHundeyin) October 31, 2022

Hey Elon, How exactly “the bird is freed” if u charge to keep a blue tick? Free speech needs to be free .@elonmusk #TwitterBlue

— Kasturi Shankar (@KasthuriShankar) October 31, 2022

Twitter Blue Tick: $20 a month

Youtube Premium:$11.99 a month

Choice is yours

— Cataleya