{"id":11510,"date":"2023-02-07T20:23:19","date_gmt":"2023-02-07T19:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/2023\/02\/07\/twitter-blue-only-gained-180000-subscriptions-by-mid-january\/"},"modified":"2023-02-07T21:23:46","modified_gmt":"2023-02-07T20:23:46","slug":"twitter-blue-only-gained-180000-subscriptions-by-mid-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/2023\/02\/07\/twitter-blue-only-gained-180000-subscriptions-by-mid-january\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter Blue only gained 180,000 subscriptions by mid-January"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Billionaire and Big Bang Theory guest star Elon Musk bought Twitter for a whopping $44 billion last year, and he\u2019s been trying his hardest to make the platform profitable. This included hiking up the price of Twitter Blue and throwing in the verification badge as a perk. Well, according to The Information (via Engadget), Twitter Blue only had a total of about 180,000 members by mid-January.<br \/>\nTwitter has been the talk of the town for the past couple of months since Elon Musk took the helm, and the stormy seas are calming down. The social media platform is now dealing with content moderation issues as far as inappropriate kid content is concerned. The distribution of child-abusive content is running rampant on the site with some videos getting nearly 200,000 views.<br \/>\nTwitter Blue is still low on subscriptions<br \/>\nAs a platform, Twitter doesn\u2019t have as many avenues for income as, say, Facebook. The company was only raking in about $1 billion every year before the takeover, and Musk is looking to change that. He plans to focus on Blue Subscriptions. That\u2019s a tough sell because most people weren\u2019t really on board with the subscription even when it was $3.<br \/>\nNow, the plan is much higher. Twitter Blue costs $11\/month on iOS and Android. However, if you sign up through the web, then it will cost you $8\/month. It costs more on mobile platforms because it\u2019s to offset the platform fees that Twitter has to pay per transaction.<br \/>\nThe company recently came out with a year plan for Twitter Blue. It costs $84\/month. This is for those who really want to use all of the perks with Twitter Blue.<br \/>\nThe report from The Information says that Musk wants half of the company\u2019s income to come from Twitter Blue subscriptions. That\u2019s pretty ambitious seeing as only about 0.2% of the company\u2019s user base has Blue.<br \/>\nElon Musk\u2019s grand plan is for Twitter to pull in about $3 billion in revenue for 2023, which will almost triple Twitter\u2019s Pre-Muskian numbers. That\u2019s going to be tough, but he\u2019s planning on introducing a more expensive payment tier that will show no ads at all.<br \/>\nThe company is also planning on charging businesses $1,000\/month to keep their verified status. We\u2019ll need to see how that goes in the long run.<br \/>\nThe post Twitter Blue only gained 180,000 subscriptions by mid-January appeared first on Android Headlines.&#013;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Twitter-Blue-poster.jpg\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\">&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ndroidheadlines.com&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Billionaire and Big Bang Theory guest star Elon Musk bought Twitter for a whopping $44 billion last year, and he\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":11511,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bez-kategorii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11510"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11512,"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11510\/revisions\/11512"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}