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Elon Musk has announced that a new version of Twitter Blue will include some sort of verification accessible for $8 per month in the US, with the price “adjusted by country proportionate to purchasing power parity.” He announced the shake-up of the premium service by saying that “Twitter’s current lords & peasants system for who has or doesn’t have a blue checkmark is bullshit.”
Musk also says that the service will get you:
Priority in replies, mentions, and search, which Musk argues is “essential to defeat spam/scam”
Ability to post long video and audio
Half as many ads
And “paywall bypass for publishers willing to work with us”
Musks tweets on Tuesday announcing the new Blue system.
Until this point, Twitter…