Elon Musk To Consider Charging Verified Twitter Users 20$ A Month

The new twitter owner, Elon Musk is reportedly considering making verification a paid feature as part of the platform's new service, "Twitter Blue".Existing verified users will have to pay $20 a month or they could be risking the loss of their blue tick. Some reports suggest that they will be given 90 days to pay if the new update comes.Musk has been clear in the months leading up to his acquisition that he wanted to revamp how Twitter verifies accounts and handles bots. On Sunday, he tweeted out and notified users that

"The whole verification process is being revamped right now." Although just only a few days into being the new Twitter chief, Mr Musk has acted quickly to make changes at Twitter, firstly by changing the homepage for it's logged out users. Using the help of his other Tesla engineers, he has brought them to Twitter as advisors, he's also planning mass layoffs aimed at 'middle managers and engineers' who haven;t recently contributed to the code of twitter . These cuts are expected to begin this week with many managers already creating their lists of employees which they may cut.