Twitter To Start Charging Companies $1,000 Per Month To Retain Gold Badges: Report

Twitter charges individual Android users $8 per month for blue checks, and iOS users $11 per month.

Musk also said that Twitter has fixed the bug that showed users "this tweet is unavailable".

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Twitter has reportedly started charging business organisations $1,000 per month in order to retain their Gold verified badges. The Elon Musk-owned microblogging platform introduced Gold, Grey, and Blue check marks to help users identify different kinds of users/accounts posting on the platform. While individuals have to pay $8 per month on Android and $11 per month on iOS to retain their Blue check marks, organisations may soon have to pay $1,000 per month to retain their Gold checks. 

The development was first shared by known industry analyst Matt Navarra on Twitter. 

Twitter is reportedly emailing businesses offering gold check mark verification for $1000 PER MONTH!

And affiliate account verification for $50 each per month pic.twitter.com/hohTPKLKdi

— Matt Navarra (@MattNavarra) February 3, 2023

As per a report by The Information, companies who refuse to pay the amount will lose their Gold badges. 

It should be noted that Twitter hasn't officially made an announcement on the reported price plan. 

Furthermore, Musk on Monday said that Twitter has fixed the bug that showed users "this tweet is unavailable".

When a user queried: "Is it just us seeing 'this tweet is unavailable' on more and more quote tweets in the feed, but when you click on it, the tweet appears? @TwitterSupport @elonmusk."

Musk replied: "We think we fixed this bug today. Please lmk if you're still seeing it."

We think we fixed this bug today. Please lmk if you’re still seeing it.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 5, 2023

Several users shared their status related to the bug on Musk's post.

While one user said, "fixed for me", another commented, "that's an old, 'conservative bug' that disappears tweets the AI doesn't like. Years back it was a very regular thing to see".

In December last year, Twitter went down for several users globally including in India, and Musk said that the outage was because of backend changes to make the micro-blogging platform faster.

For some users, timelines did not refresh and many accounts were shown as non-existent.

Also, the platform showed error messages to several users, "Something went wrong, but don't fret -- it's not your fault. Let's try again".

(With inputs from Agencies)