The blue badge will now be chargeable.
Elon Musk, the new owner of Twitter, announced in a tweet on Tuesday the upcoming launch of an $8 per month subscription for users wishing to have their account certified as authentic and be less exposed to advertising.
The social network has offered a subscription to paid features since last year, but the chief executive wants a new, more expensive and more widely adopted program that will diversify the platform's revenue sources.
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