It was a feeling of hope that I had at the beginning.

Twitter was my first love. After tweeting in a frenetic pace for the first couple of years and continuing to do so often over the next few years, I wanted to know if the new service is worth it. Twitter BlueYou can get a service at $8 per monthly if the upgrade is paid online. This would provide real value.

This service has been controversial since it was once a badge for influential people and those with many followers. It wasn’t so easy to earn that badge before, but now you just have to pay a monthly fee.

I write about social media, but I’ve never paid to acquire followers (or paid anyone to ramp up my follower count). Because I don’t want any special benefits, I use it as an everyday user. Twitter Blue was launched in paid form and became freely available for anyone to use. I wanted to give it a try.

I was familiar with some paid subscription perks. The one that caught my eye was “priority replies” which, in my estimation, means your reply to tweets will post higher in the thread, which is true. It would also mean that more people would follow those who have higher profile replies. I can’t say after my testing that having higher ranking replies helped gain new followers. I can’t say it really changed Everything.

Additional perks include editing tweets and the possibility to post longer videos. The badge offers followers some assurances about whether you are a real person or not (since bots don’t have credit cards…usually). It was okay, and I appreciated that Elon Musk (still at Twitter’s helm) is trying to bring in some revenue through the service.

It reminds me of Truth Social. This service is also of no value, and it’s a way for Trump supporters to share the same content. I’m not sure why anyone would pay for add-ons.

Twitter Blue isn’t really worth it. I didn’t notice any difference at all in terms …read more

Source:: Social Media Explorer

Author: Aaron