Twitter’s verification program has always been a complicated and controversial matter. The company has paused and resumed the process several times to streamline it. Now new owner Elon Musk wants to make that task easier, but at a price that is unaffordable for most: subscription $20 per month.

Elon Musk is a billionaire, but he won’t pass up an opportunity to be even bigger and recoup his huge investment from buying Twitter. To that end, it wants to raise the price of a subscription that gives users additional features, Twitter Blue, from the current $4.99 to $20 a month. In exchange, the user who hires him will have a verified badge.

Layoffs can pile up. If Musk’s first decision was to fire the company’s top executives, with whom he had waged a legal and media battle in recent months, Musk set a deadline for those responsible for Twitter Blue to launch the new subscription. If they don’t comply, they will be fired.they say from The Verge,

More shocking is that the social network plan to remove verification badges from current cardholders unless they pay the new Twitter Blue price within 90 days of launch. Since Twitter’s verification system is present worldwide, this rule will be difficult to enforce if the subscription program is not available globally.

“Musk made it clear in the months leading up to the acquisition that he wanted to overhaul the way Twitter verifies accounts and handles bots. He is also interested in growing subscriptions to become half of the company’s total revenue.”clarify.

In May, Elon Musk outlined his top goals to investors on Twitter, which ranged from increasing subscriber revenue to achieving 69 million Twitter Blue users by 2025. These changes to the paid plan would be the first step towards achieving the goal, but it seems that many millions of…

Central to Twitter’s verification program is identifying the real profiles of political leaders, celebrities, researchers or journalists so that users don’t fall into the trap of information posted by fake accounts. It’s interesting, but only a small number of current Twitter users will be able to afford it.