Elon Musk wants Twitter users to pay $20 a month, or lose their Blue logo

The new owner of Twitter, Elon Musk, said that the verification process of the platform, which adds a blue symbol next to the profile name, is changing.

Musk announced the plan in a tweet after an employee said he was denied a blue badge despite having a large following. Although the official details of the new approval process are still unclear, the Verge reports that the company will soon charge users for the blue sign.

According to reports, the blue logo will be limited to Twitter Blue members - a Twitter subscription that brings additional features such as editing and retweeting tweets. The company is also planning to increase the blue premium to $19.99 (roughly Rs 1,600). In addition, users who have already confirmed will have 90 days to register with Twitter Blue to keep the blue check mark on their profile. It is still unclear whether Twitter will change the rules to make the verification process stricter or softer.

The report also shows that Twitter engineers have time to adapt Twitter's authentication system or they will lose their jobs. It hasn't been a week since Musk took Twitter public, though he has already fired some key players. The list includes former CEO Parag Agrawal, who took over at the end of November last year. Other prominent figures, such as Twitter's chief financial officer, Ned Segal, and head of legal affairs, Vijaya Gadda, were also fired. 

The report insists that the new investigation must be completed by November 7.

Meanwhile, a separate report claims that Musk plans to shut down Twitter in the coming days, but the details remain unclear. It was previously reported that the CEO of Tesla may fire 75% of Twitter users to reduce wages. However, it was later rejected.