Twitter today announced its Twitter Blue subscription option relaunches Monday for $8/month on the web and $11/month through its iOS app. The higher price on iOS helps offset the 15% to 30% cut Apple receives from subscriptions paid for through the App Store — a fee that Twitter owner Elon Musk has criticized as too high.

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Twitter Blue subscribers will receive a blue checkmark next to their name, but only after they’ve verified their phone number and their account has been reviewed. Other perks include the ability to edit tweets and upload higher-resolution 1080p videos, and Reader Mode for easy reading of tweet threads. Subscribers who change their username, display name or profile picture will temporarily lose the blue checkmark until their account is reviewed again.

Twitter suspended new Blue subscriptions last month after accounts with blue ticks were used to impersonate businesses, celebrities and other high-profile individuals. The only requirement to get a blue tick was to spend $8.

Twitter also announced that it will begin replacing the “Official” label for brands and other notable accounts with a gold checkmark for businesses, while a gray checkmark for government and multilateral accounts will begin rolling out later this week.

An image shared by Twitter shows that Twitter Blue subscribers will also eventually see 50% fewer ads than non-subscribers, gain the ability to post longer videos, prioritize tweets in the reply section, mention and search, and early access to other new features over time. All of these perks are listed as “coming soon”.

Twitter has not indicated when accounts that were previously verified without opting into Twitter Blue will lose their blue tick.

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