The social network Twitter announced that on April 1 it will begin to audit and terminate the " To keep the tick off, users can subscribe to a paid Twitter Blue subscription, the company says..

Musk wrote back in December that the company would remove the old “verification checkboxes”.. Before the businessman bought the social network, blue checkmarks were given out for free, they marked verified accounts of individuals and legal entities.

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Now the tick can be purchased with a Twitter Blue subscription.. For those who subscribe from a computer, the subscription cost is $8 per month, and for mobile devices it is $11.. The colors of the checkmarks have also changed: blue remains for private users, gold for large companies, and gray for government organizations..

On April 1st, we will begin winding down our legacy verified program and removing legacy verified checkmarks. To keep your blue checkmark on Twitter, individuals can sign up for Twitter Blue here: https://t. co/gzpCcwOpLp Organizations can sign up for https://t. co/RlN5BbuGA3….

— Twitter Verified (@verified) March 23, 2023.

Subscribing gives you a number of other benefits as well.. For example, you can create longer tweets, edit and undo them.

In early March, Musk said he expected Twitter to be profitable as early as the next quarter.. He plans to focus on bringing back advertisers who have previously left the platform.. Twitter has 253 million daily active users. According to Musk’s plans, this can be profitably monetized already in the fourth quarter: Twitter earns from 5 to 6 cents per hour, and users spend “130 million hours of their time per day” on the platform.. The head of the platform believes that the company can increase its profit up to 15-20 cents per hour.

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