New Delhi: Twitter on Thursday introduced the launch of Twitter Blue, its first subscription service that may supply unique features, together with undoing tweets inside a stipulated time.
The “first iteration” of Twitter Blue is being rolled out in Australia and Canada, and the service will probably be out there for a month-to-month worth of CAD 3.49 (about Rs 210) or AUD 4.49. In India, Twitter is reportedly planning to launch the service at Rs 269 monthly.
“Our hope with this initial phase is to gain a deeper understanding of what will make your Twitter experience more customised, more expressive, and generally speaking more… A free Twitter is not going away, and never will. This subscription offering is simply meant to add enhanced and complementary features to the already existing Twitter experience for those who want it,” Twitter stated in a blogpost.
Those signing up for a Twitter Blue subscription will get entry to Bookmark Folders that may let customers organise the tweets they’ve saved.
The ‘reader mode’ will present a greater studying expertise to make it simpler for customers to maintain up with lengthy threads on Twitter by turning them into easy-to-read textual content.
An attention-grabbing characteristic is the ‘Undo Tweet’ characteristic.
Users can set a customisable timer of as much as 30 seconds to click on ‘Undo’ earlier than the Tweet, reply, or thread customers have despatched. Currently, customers cannot edit tweets which have been posted and may solely delete such content material.
Subscribers may also get entry to perks, similar to customisable app icons for his or her gadget’s residence display and enjoyable color themes for his or her Twitter app, and could have entry to devoted subscription buyer help, the weblog stated.
