Twitter to relaunch Twitter Blue at higher price for Apple users

(Reuters) – Twitter Inc will relaunch a revamped model of its subscription service Twitter Blue on Monday at the next value for Apple customers, the corporate stated in a tweet on Saturday.

The corporate stated customers might subscribe to the revamped service that can permit subscribers to edit tweets, add 1080p movies and get a blue checkmark put up account verification, for $8 per thirty days by means of the online however for $11 per thirty days by means of Apple iOS.

Twitter didn’t clarify why Apple customers have been being charged greater than others on the internet however there have been media reviews that the corporate was in search of methods to offset charges charged within the App Retailer.

Twitter had initially launched Twitter Blue early in November earlier than pausing it as pretend accounts mushroomed. It was then scheduled to launch once more on Nov. 29 however was pushed again.

Elon Musk, who took Twitter non-public for $44 billion in November had in a sequence of tweets final month listed numerous grievances with Apple, together with the 30% price the iPhone maker expenses software program builders for in-app purchases.

He had then accused Apple of threatening to dam Twitter from its app retailer and in addition stated that the iPhone maker had stopped promoting on the social media platform.

Nonetheless, after a subsequent assembly with Apple chief govt Tim Cook dinner, he tweeted that the misunderstanding about Twitter being faraway from Apple’s app retailer was resolved.

Each Twitter and Apple didn’t reply to Reuters request for feedback.

(Reporting by Gokul Pisharody and Kanjyik Ghosh in Bengaluru; Modifying by David Gregorio and Aurora Ellis)