Phone Verification Added For Twitter Blue Subscription. Know Everything

The Elon Musk-owned company said that it is adding phone verification as a review step for those applying for the Twitter blue checkmark, in a bid to avoid impersonation.

Twitter's much-talked-about Twitter Blue subscription plan, which the company said will cost more for iPhone users, has been relaunched today (December 12). The Elon Musk-owned company also said that it is adding phone verification as a review step for those applying for the Twitter blue checkmark, in a bid to avoid impersonation.

According to Esther Crawford, Product Manager at Twitter, the review step has been added for users before they are given the blue checkmark. "On Monday we are bringing back the ability to subscribe to @TwitterBlue  — it’ll be $8/mo on the web and $11/mo on iOS.  We've added a review step before applying a blue checkmark to an account as one of our new steps to combat impersonation (which is against the Twitter Rules)," Crawford tweeted.

Several Twitter users asked Crawford their doubts about the new changes in the Twitter Blue subscription service. One user asked: "Will there be ID verification?", to which Crawford replied: "We don't have ID verification in this update."

Twitter Blue subscribers with a verified phone number will get a blue check mark, read a post by Twitter. There will be 50 per cent fewer advertisements for Twitter Blue users, the ability to post longer videos, among other features. 

Meanwhile, Twitter is finally adding the ability to increase its character limit from the current 280 characters to 4,000, the company's new boss Elon Musk has confirmed. While replying to a question asked whether the rumoured plans of the micro-blogging platform to increase the character limit were true, Musk replied: "Yes" without providing additional information or a timeline of when the feature will be made available to the users.

To recall, a hike in the character limit of tweets has been imminent since last month. Earlier on November 27, when Twitter boss and tech billionaire Musk shared pictures of slides from a "company talk", a user suggested a 420-character limit for tweets. To that, Must responded: "Good idea."