Twitter Bars New Users From Subscribing To Blue

According to the subscription terms, paying Twitter Blue members will be prioritized in search results and replies and see half as many ads, along with a number of features allegedly coming like longer video limits. Select features from the old Blue subscription will remain, such as tweet editing and higher resolution video uploads. 

While there’s been much talk about the confusion cased by using the same checkmark to denote verified users and paying Blue members, Twitter seems to be using account age to combat abuse of the system, at least for now. According to a Twitter Blue support page, any Twitter account created on or after November 9, 2022 will not be able to subscribe to the new Twitter Blue until further notice. In a similar vein, Twitter Blue subscribers will be unable to change their display name after receiving the checkmark. If users would like to change their display name, they will need to go through a new process, which has yet to be confirmed. Steps which all seem to be in place to combat abuse of the Blue checkmark. 

Aside from account age, Twitter’s verification terms and conditions also state that the blue checkmark can be revoked at any point in time, listing rules regarding “impersonation” as motivations for revocation. The new subscription is clearly in its early days, and things are bound to change as Twitter’s new leadership and ideology settle.