Twitter confirms price for subscription service Twitter Blue in India ‘not determined’ yet

Twitter Blue is a service inside the primary Twitter app that customers must pay additional for in order that they’ll entry premium options

Twitter Blue: Just a few days after the worth of Twitter’s paid subscription mannequin Twitter Blue for India was revealed on Apple’s App Retailer, the corporate has clarified that the worth talked about with the replace isn’t finalised. Twitter Blue is a subscription service from the microblogging website which incorporates a number of premium options together with an choice to “undo” tweets, and the replace containing help for this service was launched three days in the past on the App Retailer for iOS gadgets and Google Play Retailer for Android-based gadgets, and it talked about Twitter Blue as an in-app buy. Whereas the Android replace didn’t checklist the worth for this in-app buy, Apple App Retailer cited the worth for Twitter Blue as Rs 269.

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On Thursday, Twitter introduced the rollout of its new subscription service in Australian and Canadian markets, the place the function shall be examined first. Availability in different markets, together with India shall be ruled by the response it receives within the take a look at markets.

Accordingly, a Twitter Spokesperson confirmed to Monetary Categorical On-line that the costs for the subscription service have solely been decided for these two international locations. “We have now not decided pricing for markets aside from Australia and Canada simply but. We intend to be taught from these first two markets, iterate and enhance the product as we go alongside,” the spokesperson stated in an announcement despatched over e mail.

This basically implies that the worth listed for Twitter Blue on Apple App Retailer is bigoted (probably an automatic conversion by the App Retailer) and will be modified when the corporate decides to launch it in India. This additionally means that the costs of $2.99 for the function within the US, and that of two.49 Kilos within the UK have been possible arbitrary as nicely.

Notably, Twitter Blue is a service inside the primary Twitter app that customers must pay additional for in order that they’ll entry premium options like ‘Undo Tweet’, which can let customers redact a tweet shortly after it has been posted, ‘Bookmark Folder’, utilizing which individuals will have the ability to organise their bookmarked tweets in folders, and ‘Reader Mode’ that can allow them to learn lengthy threads in a neater method.