Benefit from a service without paying for it. This is what Twitter users are doing without knowing it. Several accounts have explained to the US site Gizmodo that they have not paid for their Twitter Blue subscriptions for several weeks. However, they were able to keep their certification credential, which was reserved for subscribers to the service.
In a video posted on Twitter, a user immortalized the anomaly. He shows the profile of him there, with the blue sesame. But when you go to the Twitter Blue menu, the app offers to sign up for the social network’s paid offer.
Lots of back and forth on Twitter Blue
The user explained that he changed his profile picture a week before ending his subscription. This change automatically removes the certification badge, as it requires further verification by Twitter teams. But this process continued beyond the expiration of your subscription. When the verification was completed, the badge returned despite the end of the subscription.
The account in question has since lost its certification. But the problem still persists in another user interviewed by Gizmodo. He explains that he took out his subscription in December, but only for a month. However, he is entering his “second month of free certification,” he said on Twitter on February 7.
Researcher Travis Brown has been tracking the number of Twitter Blue subscribers since the offer launched. According to him, “there are a lot of accounts that seem to go back and forth between signing up and unsubscribing.”
In his latest report, he notes that almost 11,000 accounts have lost their blue badge, while some 10,500 people have found it. However, Travis Brown warns that what appears to be a bug in the system could disrupt Twitter Blue’s census of subscribers.
In internal documents consulted by The Information, it emerged that the paid offer of the social network had attracted only 180,000 users in the United States. This represents only 0.2% of active accounts in the country. Worldwide, this figure does not exceed 290,000 subscribers.
Source: BFM TV
