Twitter plans to raise the pricing of its Twitter Blue subscription product to $11, from $7.99, if paid for through its iPhone app and to $7 if paid for on the website, The Information reported on Wednesday, citing a person briefed on the plans.
The move was likely a pushback against Apple Inc’s 30% cut on any payments made by users via apps on the iOS operating system, the report said.
The lower pricing on the website was also likely to drive more users to that platform as opposed to signing up on their iPhones, the report said. It did not mention whether pricing would change for the Android platform as well.
Musk, who took ownership of Twitter in October, is planning to roll out the micro blogging site’s verified service with different colored checks for individuals, companies and governments… Musk, in a series of tweets last week listed various grievances with Apple, including the 30% fee the iphone maker charges software developers for in-app purchases.
MacDailyNews Take: If true, this is Twitter’s prerogative. Apple can then either respond or leave things as they are. Most Twitter users who wish to subscribe will simply do so on Twitter’s website, not thru Apple’s In-App Purchase the Twitter app.
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screw twitter, screw musk, screw biden and trump, screw the dems and the repubs, in fact screw the lot of them…there got that off my chest finally
Meh, screw you too, buddy
I shuttered and deleted my twitter account the minute musk bought it…..
Oh, what a hero
Said the Musk gimp….
So for years now, MDN has pilloried ‘any’ attempt to sidestep Apple’s App Store rules on fees, payment and downloading. MDN has screamed from the rooftops that Apple is in the right and any other company should be glad to be part of Apple’s guaranteed earnings potential. If you don’t like it, you can just shove off!!
Then along comes the darling of the right, Mush – apparently the answer to all the world’s ills, a perfect shoe-in to replace Tim Cook, a reviver of Apple’s legendary innovatory reputations, who wants to circumvent App Store payment rules like… well… Epic!!
MDN take: “it’s Twitter’s prerogative”
Just pathetic a*se licking, spineless, worm like, bottom feeding hypocrisy.
Only in America where cult worship reigns.
What’s even the point of having a Blue Checkmark subscription service when the whole point of that was to identify official accounts of high-profile figures? Now that anyone can subscribe to this for the low price of $11 that would basically give everyone their 15 minutes of Fame. Quite frankly, I think Twitter has outlived its usefulness.
YouTube does the same and I don’t hear anyone complain