Twitter is abuzz with experiences that customers must shell out a $20 (roughly Rs. 1,600) payment for the ‘blue tick’, which authenticates the id of the account holder, and a failure pay the quantity will end result within the coveted standing being withdrawn.

Refuting the experiences, Union Minister of State for Electronics and Technology, Rajeev Chandrasekhar advised ANI, “I do not think this is true. This is a challenge for Twitter. They need to see how this miscommunication is being circulated on the platform. I do not think such reports are true.”

According to media experiences, Elon Musk, the brand new CEO of Twitter, is planning to cost customers $19.99 (over Rs. 1,600) for the brand new Twitter Blue subscription that brings additional options like edit and undo tweets.

Under the present plan, verified customers would have 90 days to subscribe or lose their blue checkmark. Employees engaged on the mission had been advised that they should meet a deadline of November 7 to launch the characteristic or they are going to be fired.

The specific report comes a day after Musk in a tweet talked about that Twitter will revise its consumer verification course of. However, he didn’t any element associated to the fees.

“Whole verification process is being revamped right now”, he tweeted.

The Twitter Blue subscription launched broadly nearly a 12 months in the past as a strategy to view ad-free articles from some publishers and make different tweaks to the app, akin to a distinct coloration residence display icon.

In April, Twitter accepted Musk’s proposal to purchase and take the social media service non-public. However, Musk quickly started sowing doubt about his intentions to comply with via with the settlement, alleging that the corporate didn’t adequately disclose the variety of spam and pretend accounts on the service.

In July, in a stunning flip of occasions, Elon Musk who had lengthy been displaying his curiosity to purchase Twitter terminated the deal. The Tesla CEO did so by alleging that Twitter violated their mutual buy settlement by misrepresenting the variety of spam and pretend bot accounts on its platform.

After Musk put out the deal termination announcement, the market noticed a pointy decline. Later, Twitter sued Musk accusing him of utilizing bots as a pretext to exit a deal. Again, final week, Musk confirmed that he would transfer ahead with the Twitter buyout on the initially agreed value of $54.20 (roughly Rs. 4,400) per share.