{"id":600157,"date":"2023-01-22T06:48:57","date_gmt":"2023-01-22T12:48:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.sellorbuyhomefast.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/22\/elon-musk-teases-higher-priced-twitter-blue-subscription-with-no-ads\/"},"modified":"2023-01-22T06:48:57","modified_gmt":"2023-01-22T12:48:57","slug":"elon-musk-teases-higher-priced-twitter-blue-subscription-with-no-ads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/22\/elon-musk-teases-higher-priced-twitter-blue-subscription-with-no-ads\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk teases \u2018higher priced\u2019 Twitter Blue subscription with no ads"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Elon Musk says Twitter will roll out a new \u201chigher priced\u201d Blue subscription that doesn\u2019t show ads on the platform. The current $7.99 per month Twitter Blue subscription promises 50 percent fewer ads<\/a> when compared to \u201cnon-verified people,\u201d although this feature hasn\u2019t been rolled out yet.<\/p>\n

A more expensive, ad-free subscription might be Twitter\u2019s answer to Blue\u2019s disappointing subscriber numbers and Twitter\u2019s 40 percent decline in ad revenue, something The Verge<\/em>\u2019s Alex Heath reports on in his latest Command Line<\/em> newsletter<\/a>. In addition to the new tier, Musk says Twitter\u2019s also working on a way to decrease the frequency and size of ads on Twitter, which he\u2019s hinted at in the past<\/a>. <\/p>\n

We still don\u2019t know how much the ad-free tier will cost or when it might launch, and Twitter no longer has a communications team to contact. The existing Blue subscription comes with perks like a blue \u201cverified\u201d checkmark, the ability to undo tweets, a way to upload longer 1080p videos, a reader mode for threads, and prioritized ranking in conversations<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This comes just days after Twitter quietly put a ban on third-party clients<\/a>, like Tweetbot and Twitterrific. On Thursday, the company updated its developer agreement to note that developers can\u2019t use Twitter\u2019s API to \u201ccreate or attempt to create a substitute or similar service or product to the Twitter Applications.\u201d <\/p>\n

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While Musk nor Twitter ever cited a reason for the change, it\u2019s possible that Musk\u2019s doing away with third-party apps due to Twitter\u2019s financial struggles<\/a> and a mountain of debt<\/a> that has the company auctioning off thousands of dollars worth of office furniture and other decor<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

As my colleague Mitchell Clark points out<\/a>, while some developers pay to access Twitter\u2019s API, Twitter doesn\u2019t show ads through it, preventing the company from earning any ad revenue. Plus, people who use third-party apps might not see a need to purchase a Twitter Blue subscription, as some of them already offer an enhanced, (and sometimes ad-free) Twitter experience. <\/p>\n

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The current pricing for Twitter Blue.<\/em><\/figcaption>

Image: Twitter<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

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Twitter already puts a $3 premium on Blue sign-ups from iOS or Android devices as a way to make up for the commission Apple and Google<\/a> take out of in-app purchases. While Blue has been available on iOS as an $11 per month<\/a> subscription since it was relaunched in December, Twitter made it available to Android users on Thursday for the same price<\/a>. There\u2019s also an option to purchase a year-long subscription to Blue at the discounted rate of $84<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Elon Musk says Twitter will roll out a new \u201chigher priced\u201d Blue subscription that doesn\u2019t show ads on the platform. The current $7.99 per month Twitter Blue subscription promises 50 percent fewer ads when compared to \u201cnon-verified people,\u201d although this feature hasn\u2019t been rolled out yet.A more expensive, ad-free subscription might be Twitter\u2019s answer to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":600158,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22993,1505,46],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-600157","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-higher","8":"category-teases","9":"category-technology"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=600157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/600158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=600157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=600157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}