Elon Musk, the world’s richest man and “Chief Twit” officially announced the “blue tick” subscription at just $8 per month for Twitter users. However, Vitalik Buterin, C0-founder of Ethereum seems to be a bit dubious regarding Musk’s latest Twitter plans.
Will Elon’s Twitter blue tick plan work?
Buterin presented that he is a little skeptical about how well this plan works out. He highlighted that it will depend on exactly how much due diligence is done in order to make sure users getting blue checks are who they say they are.
Paying $8 per month and calling yourself whatever you want would damage the blue check’s anti scam role, he added. However, he suggested that if there will be more actual verification then the results will be very different.
Vitalik mentioned that he doesn’t get this analysis of charging $8 per month for a Twitter blue tick creates an economy hierarchy. He stressed that the current blue check plan is much more exclusive than the $20 per month level from yesterday.
However, he suggested that verifications would be charged at cost. While it should be separate from other premium services.