Twitter’s app on iOS has been up to date to assist Elon Musk’s $7.99 monthly Twitter Blue. The app’s newest replace on the Apple App Retailer says it’s a must to pay for Blue to get verified on the platform “similar to the celebrities, corporations, and politicians you already comply with.”

The brand new Twitter Blue subscription isn’t accessible simply but, although. Esther Crawford, a product supervisor at Twitter confirmed it’s not stay proper now however says some customers “may even see us making updates as a result of we’re testing and pushing adjustments in real-time.”

Whereas the up to date app initially confirmed a revamped notifications display that defaulted to displaying tweets from Verified customers within the first tab (serving to to advertise the concept paying for the brand new plan is the easiest way to ensure folks really see your tweets), this has since disappeared. As identified by one in every of my colleagues at The Verge and reverse engineer Jane Manchun Wong, the brand new format disappears after quitting out of the app and opening it once more.

The app displayed a “Blue appears to be like good on you, take pleasure in your verified checkmark” pop-up when customers attempt to enroll to Blue as effectively, however with out the precise opt-in for displaying a “verified” label in your profile. This message additionally disappeared from my colleague’s app after quitting and reopening Twitter, so it’s unclear whether or not or not all customers will see this present up.

It’s nonetheless not clear when verification by way of Twitter Blue will go stay (or when it should arrive on Android), however it looks as if it’s taking place quickly. Musk initially gave the builders engaged on Blue till Monday, November seventh, to finish these adjustments or else face getting fired.

It appears to be like like verification would be the solely function accessible with the Twitter Blue subscription to start out. Different perks, like fewer adverts, the power to submit longer movies, and precedence rating to assist “decrease the visibility of scams, spam, and bots,” are listed as “coming quickly.” Twitter Blue is simply accessible within the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the UK for now. Crawford says it’s “coming quickly” to Europe.

When Musk introduced the brand new Twitter Blue subscription final week, he hinted at offering entry to paywalled articles, however this function isn’t amongst these listed within the replace. He additionally pulled the ad-free article perk that got here with the earlier $4.99 / month Twitter Blue subscription and reportedly pushed to make Twitter’s “edit” button accessible to all customers, not simply subscribers. On Friday, Musk laid off round half of Twitter’s staff throughout a number of departments, together with product belief and security, coverage, communications, tweet curation, moral AI, and others.

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