{"id":575926,"date":"2022-04-10T07:55:57","date_gmt":"2022-04-10T05:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=575926"},"modified":"2022-04-10T07:55:57","modified_gmt":"2022-04-10T05:55:57","slug":"elon-musk-on-plans-for-twitters-blue-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/575926\/elon-musk-on-plans-for-twitters-blue-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk on plans for Twitter\u2019s Blue Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk wants Twitter Inc to offer authentication checkmarks and zero ads for users that pay for premium features on the social media service.<\/p>\n<p>After investor Michael Burry complained about losing his account\u2019s authentication checkmark, the billionaire and new Twitter board member told Burry he\u2019ll get it back and also suggested that the company give authentication checkmarks to all Twitter Blue users.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">You will get it back, even though you shorted Tesla, you bastard \ud83e\udd23<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1512945536969678851?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 10, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Twitter\u2019s monthly subscription service offers premium features such as some ad-free articles and the ability to retract a tweet before it\u2019s visible to others and is available to users in the U.S., Canada, Australia and New Zealand.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Everyone who signs up for Twitter Blue (ie pays $3\/month) should get an authentication checkmark<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1512946176244473863?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 10, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">But should be different from \u201cpublic figure\u201d or \u201cofficial account\u201d checkmark<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1512957577092608004?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 10, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">And no ads. The power of corporations to dictate policy is greatly enhanced if Twitter depends on advertising money to survive.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1512962115270754306?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 10, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Since taking a 9.2% stake and winning a board seat on Twitter, Musk has already weighed in on the lack of an edit button as well as how little celebrities like Justin Bieber and Taylor Swift post on the social media network.<\/p>\n<p>Musk is set to join Twitter chief executive officer Parag Agrawal at a company meeting next week to address employee questions. Ahead of that, he held a poll on whether Twitter should convert its headquarters into a homeless shelter, taking aim at its return-to-office policy that allows employees the option of working remotely \u201cforever.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Convert Twitter SF HQ to homeless shelter since no one shows up anyway<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1512966135423066116?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 10, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/575016\/samsung-earnings-top-estimates-on-chip-demand-new-handsets\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Samsung earnings top estimates on chip demand, new handsets<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk wants Twitter Inc to offer authentication checkmarks and zero ads for users that pay for premium features on the social media service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":279227,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9882],"tags":[26,93],"class_list":["post-575926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-headline","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=575926"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":575930,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575926\/revisions\/575930"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}