Elon Musk has already made a first round of decisions. New head of Twitter for just a few days, the richest man in the world spins proposals for the platform to generate more income. But one of his projects is struggling to get through.
To make Twitter a profitable social network, Elon Musk asked employees to introduce a paid certification, The Verge reports. The idea would be to modify the existing monthly Twitter Blue subscription, which gives access to specific functions.
Guarantee the identity of a person
From now on, instead of the $4.99 per month, you would have to pay $19.99. And this sum would give access to the certification credential. But this possibility was strongly rejected on the platform.
Famous writer Stephen King got up on Twitter. the author of sparkly Where That It has also announced that if this device is implemented, it would leave the social network. Leaving its 6.9 million subscribers without news.
He is not the only one who takes a dim view of the monetization of certification on Twitter. Especially since it was created above all to guarantee the identity of a person or an organization and thus ensure that no one makes a statement in their name, as the American astrophysicist and researcher Katie Mack reminds us, followed by about 425,000 people.
90 days before you lose your badges
The certification was particularly helpful to comic book writer Dan Slott. When he received the plaque from him, he faced a barrage of death threats related to his work on the Spider-Man character.
Despite this protest, Elon Musk seems determined to make certification accessible for a simple fee. Accounts that are already certified only have, according to current forecasts, 90 days to subscribe to the service, otherwise they will lose their credential.
And since Elon Musk is now running the company, employees were urged to act. If this new subscription is not ready by November 7, they will be fired.
Source: BFM TV
