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| Twitter Blue .. Upcoming Twitter subscription service |
Twitter previously confirmed that it is exploring a paid subscription model for some features. Jin Manchun Wong, a researcher known for studying the functionality of social media apps, tweeted on Saturday that she found out the expected cost and the name of the subscription service.
Wong said, Twitter's subscription service, Twitter Blue, costs $ 2.99 per month and can remove tweets and bookmark collections.
She added: Twitter appears to have developed a hierarchical subscription model that it believes could mean higher quality and a less cluttered experience for followers with higher subscriptions.
A Twitter spokesperson declined to comment, but the company did not endorse or comment on Wong's specific public results prior to introducing new features.
In the past few weeks, Twitter has released a slew of new product announcements, updated warnings about potentially offensive tweets, improved algorithms for cropping photos so that longer images can be fully displayed in the user's feed, and adding the ability for Android users to search, Tip Jar adds direct messages. To allow users to donate to specific creators, journalists, experts, and nonprofits.
Twitter acquired Scroll earlier this month, a $ 5 monthly subscription service that removes ads from participating sites.
Also, with the announcement of the acquisition of Scroll, Twitter said: Nuzzel is a scrolling service that sends users daily email reports of the most important news from its Twitter feed, and the service is about to release.
As Wong noted in a subsequent tweet, Tony Haile, the former CEO of Scroll and now a member of the Twitter product team, tweeted that Scroll would be acquired later that year on the day his company was acquired. Subscription.
This seems to indicate that one of Twitter's premium products will be an ad-free experience that is nearly as sophisticated for speakers as it is for editable voices.
In its first-quarter earnings report late last month, Twitter reported $ 68 million in revenue and $ 1.04 billion in revenue.
The company stated that the number of active daily users it could make money with has increased by 20%.
There is no information on when the paid version of Twitter will start or who is eligible.