After a few weeks speculating what Twitter could or could not offer with what would be its first paid subscription, now we have the official announcement and we will tell you everything that the social network will allow you to do if you decide to pay the monthly fee that gives you access to the benefits of Twitter Blue.
What is Twitter Blue
Twitter Blue is the first subscription service offered by the popular microblogging network. A proposal that has been talked about for some time and that has finally materialized into a real option. Although at the moment it is only active in Canada and Australia, but it is expected that it will not take long to reach the rest of the countries.
With this first subscription or first payment service offered by the company, it pursues several objectives:
- Provide more advanced users or those who make more intensive use of the platform a series of additional advantages that those who use the network without paying will not have
- Better understand possible needs that users may have in order to launch other services or improve the current one in the future
- Obtain extra income based on that monthly payment, which in this case would be US $ 2.99 for each subscribed user (Canadian $ 3.49 and Australian $ 4.49)
Exclusive Twitter Blue features
Now that you know what Twitter Blue is, let’s talk about what makes sense of it: its exclusive functions or features. That set of options that are what should motivate the user to pay to access it instead of staying with the Twitter that we all know today.
Favorites or bookmarks folders
The first feature that users who decide to pay for Twitter Blue will enjoy is the bookmarks or favorites folder . This allows you to save tweets in a much more organized way. So that, when necessary, it is much easier and faster for the user to find what they are looking for even if they do not remember the content very well or an element that helps them locate it through the advanced search options that they can access. any user
Reading or reader mode
The second feature offered by the paid Twitter subscription is the reader mode. This has been designed to improve the reading experience of those long threads that can already be seen published on the web on a regular basis.
To achieve this, the display format is more visually pleasing for the user since more content is displayed and fewer icons and other elements that in long threads are repetitive and annoying, as well as an interruption to reading.
Option to customize icons and colors
Continuing with features that affect the visual section, another advantage of Twitter Blue for its subscribers will be the ability to customize the icons and colors that will affect both the home screen and the application through the use of themes.
A somewhat simplistic option, but for some, being able to remove those blue tones and use others you already know that it is something they like to do.
Undo a tweet
Without a doubt, this is the most attractive function of all those offered by Twitter Blue and it could still be insufficient. The option to undo the publication of a tweet will only be available to those who pay monthly for Twitter Blue, although it is not the possibility of editing that many have been asking for for years.
Here undoing a tweet posted on Twitter is more like the “unsubmit” offered by some email clients. That is to say, it is an extra time as a timer that you can customize up to 30 seconds and that will be what you have to see if something fails or does not convince you in the message you just published to delete it without the rest of your people telling you follow or can access your timeline see it.
That is, it is the same as if you took the trouble to review for a few seconds what you are going to publish before hitting the button. It doesn’t make a lot of sense or appeal unless you see it as something for those times when you inadvertently hit it off early.
Priority customer service
Finally, the final advantage that Twitter Blue offers its users is priority customer service . What will it allow or how will that benefit? Well, it is not known, because the company has not really specified what type of support it would give so that it would be differential for the user in their day to day.
Possibly this is more focused on the attention to those profiles of brands, famous personalities, etc., and for when they suffer some kind of specific incident … Anyway, for this we will have to wait a little longer if we want to specify what it really consists of.
Twitter Blue is worth paying for
Well, at this point it is clear that the question that you and many of us ask ourselves is whether it is really worth paying for these advantages that Twitter Blue offers. And we fear that there is no clear answer, although the vast majority may say no.
Twitter Blue is true that it offers some features that could be taken advantage of, but you have to be a very intensive user of the platform and it would still be difficult to justify the payment decision. Because, despite the fact that the amount is not very high either, it is true that it is not a great change with respect to the current free experience of the network.
Possibly, beyond some other user who wants yes or yes to access these news, are the brands and media profiles, influences, etc., which could see some interest. But the common user, let’s say, we do not believe that he will make the leap to the paid subscription.
So you still have to keep waiting for another subscription that offers advantages such as an advertising-free timeline or the possibility of deciding with greater clarity and control how you want the tweets of the accounts you follow to be displayed.
Anyway, what do you think? Will you pay for Twitter Blue?
