Twitter Blue is again, letting you purchase a blue checkmark once more

Elon Musk’s $8-per-month Twitter Blue subscription with verification is formally accessible, and also you’ll want a verified telephone quantity to enroll.

In a thread on Twitter, the platform notes that Blue will price $11 per 30 days in the event you join on iOS and can grant you entry to the flexibility to edit tweets, add 1080p movies, reader mode, and, in fact, the coveted blue checkmark. If you paid for the outdated $4.99 / $2.99 Blue bundle, you then’ll must subscribe once more to maintain its advantages, whereas anybody who signed up on Apple on the outdated $7.99 per 30 days value might be mechanically renewed at $11 per 30 days except they cancel.

This time round, Twitter is counting on a calmly described assessment course of, in addition to the telephone quantity verification requirement, to restrict any “verified” hoaxing:

We’re dedicated to sustaining integrity of accounts on Twitter and making the platform a spot folks can be part of and have interaction safely. Only Twitter accounts created greater than 90 days in the past can join Twitter Blue.

All Twitter Blue subscribers might be required to confirm their phone number as a part of join. 

Once subscribed to Twitter Blue, modifications to your profile picture, show title, or username (@deal with) will consequence within the lack of the blue checkmark till the account is validated as persevering with to satisfy our necessities, and no additional modifications might be allowed throughout this assessment interval. Learn extra about checkmark necessities here.

The firm says the present value level is a “limited time offer” on the signup web page and lists a number of options coming quickly. Those embrace the flexibility to “rocket to the top of replies,” put up “longer videos,” and see round half the variety of advertisements.

Twitter says anybody with an present blue checkmark gained’t lose it “at this time,” though that is one thing Musk says will happen in “a few months.” It does observe, nonetheless, that customers who change their show title or profile picture will lose their checkmark till their account is reviewed.