Twitter Potentially To Introduce New Premium Subscription Service For $3 A Month With Twitter Blue

For the most part, social media has been “free” for users to join and use ever since it began rolling out in the late 2000s. Over the last few years though, more and more of these platforms have been introducing premium versions of their services offering special functions, ad-free experiences or exclusive access to things other, regular users don’t get.

Now, Twitter appears to be the most recent major platform to toy with the idea in the form of a new paid service dubbed “Twitter Blue.” According to an independent researcher by the name of Jane Manchun Wong, Twitter Blue will be a subscription-based service priced at $2.99 a month with special features only available to subscribers.

Twitter is calling their upcoming Subscription Service “Twitter Blue”, priced at $2.99/month for now, including paid features like:

Undo Tweets: https://t.co/CrqnzIPcOH

Collections: https://t.co/qfFfAXHp1o pic.twitter.com/yyMStpCkpr

— Jane Manchun Wong (@wongmjane) May 15, 2021

Among these premium abilities, Twitter Blue subscribers will supposedly have the option to organize tweets into collections and also undo tweets via a new button. So far, little appears to be known about Twitter Blue and what exactly it’ll offer, as well as if this is something that’ll actually see the light of day.

Regardless of whether or not it’s real and coming to a phone near you, Twitter users have been heavily discussing the possibility of a premium subscription service since the news broke over the weekend. So far, much of the dominating discussion has either mocked or memed Twitter Blue.

pov: you have twitter blue pic.twitter.com/ngrUVGDLx3

— lullaby (⚬⃔⚬ℕ⚬⃔⚬) (@fuIImoonlullaby) May 15, 2021

If you see someone with Twitter Blue you are legally obligated to mock them https://t.co/stTs7VuYCP

— Lemonade Nammy 💉🔜28th (@NAMCOnade) May 15, 2021

TWITTER BLUE?? TWITTER IS ALREADY BLUE?! THINK JACK THINK!!! pic.twitter.com/1CsdrdnmO9

— Dingus (@DingusXXL) May 15, 2021

Perhaps the most confusing element expressed by Twitter users lately is the “undo tweet” button mentioned in Wong’s post, mainly because the “delete tweet” function already exists. The difference between the two appears to be similar to Gmail’s delayed sending function that lets you stop an email from being sent within a brief period of time.

so it recently came out that this feature is gonna be one behind a paywall for twitter's upcoming membership subscription service called twitter blue pic.twitter.com/GIkuMqK1UF

— matt (@ohnoitmatt) May 16, 2021

So, you can pay 3 bucks a month for this twitter blue thing
One of the features is "undo tweet"

Man, I wonder where I saw this early pic.twitter.com/cl0w4jl19u

— 🏳️‍🌈Choco's place to eventually draw 🏳️‍🌈 (@HotChocoMilkies) May 15, 2021

“Twitter is also working on tiered subscription pricing model, with one tier having more paid features than the other,” Wong tweeted. “For example, users on higher-priced tiers could enjoy premium experiences, such as clutter-free news reading experience.”

It’s not all negative reactions though, as some Twitter users pointed out that the social media brand is merely following in the footsteps of the many other services that offer a free or premium subscription model depending on which users prefer, as Wong even noted herself later on.

I don’t get it

Reddit has Reddit Premium, Discord has Discord Nitro, YouTube has YouTube Red, VSCO has VSCO X, etc

And they all work fine without, while subscribers enjoy the premium perks, supporting the platform

So why isn’t Twitter allowed to have Twitter Blue? Why mad?

— Jane Manchun Wong (@wongmjane) May 15, 2021