Elon Musk Begins Charging $7.99 Charge To Twitter Customers

Elon Musk has made good on his promise to cost Twitter customers a payment … and he is now attempting to lure different prospects with a celeb gross sales pitch.

Musk — who bought the social media big for $44 billion final month — has formally launched Twitter Blue for $7.99 a month to customers with verified accounts.

Twitter introduced the transfer Saturday … and tried to make it interesting to the lots with a reference to star energy.

The assertion started … “Get Twitter Blue in case you join now. Blue checkmark: Energy to the folks. Your account will get a blue checkmark, identical to the celebrities, firms and politicians you comply with.”

The corporate then talked about plans to chop half the adverts and make the remaining ones a lot better. “Because you’re supporting Twitter within the battle towards the bots, we’re going to reward you with half the adverts and make them twice as related.”

It additionally pledged to permit customers to put up prolonged movies and provides them precedence rankings for high quality content material within the type of replies, mentions and searches.

Musk is hoping that by charging the month-to-month person payment he can offset the key losses he is accrued since his large buy of Twitter in late October.

Elon insists the San Francisco based-company is hemorrhaging $4 million a day, resulting in him firing half the workforce — or roughly 3,700 staff.

After receiving an ominous e mail concerning the pending layoffs, Twitter employees filed a category motion lawsuit to attempt to save their jobs, arguing Musk had given them inadequate discover, which was in violation of federal and California regulation.