Twitter’s Blue subscription involves Android gadgets

Twitter Blue has arrived on Android, and similar to on iOS, it should price you $11 a month to pay for a subscription by Google Play. The social media web site has updated its About web page for Blue so as to add Android pricing for all of the nations the place the service is at present out there, specifically the US, the UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Japan. 

Earlier than this, you’d should pay for a subscription by way of the online or an iOS machine if you wish to take pleasure in Blue’s perks on an Android cellphone. Take be aware, nevertheless, that paying by Google will price you $3 greater than paying by an internet browser. By charging extra whenever you pay by way of your machine’s app retailer, Twitter is actually passing the tech giants’ 30 p.c fee onto you. For those who do not thoughts firing up an internet browser to pay for Twitter Blue, you possibly can rating a year-long subscription for $84 per 12 months, it doesn’t matter what your cellphone’s working system is. It is a newly launched option that is equal to paying $7 a month as a substitute of $8. 

A Twitter Blue subscription will put a blue checkmark subsequent to your identify on the web site and gives you entry to options not but out there for non-paying customers. A kind of options enables you to preview your tweet and provides you the option to “undo” it earlier than it will get posted in your timeline. You additionally get entry to bookmark folders, themes and customized app icons. However as TechCrunch notes, there is not any telling what Blue’s function listing will appear like over the approaching months: The corporate might very effectively add new perks or take away them sooner or later. The checkmark will doubtless stay as one of many service’s primary promoting factors, nevertheless, seeing as Elon Musk previously called Twitter’s “lords & peasants system for who has or does not have a blue checkmark” as “bullshit.”