New Delhi: Meta has also announced a Twitter-like paid subscription model for Instagram and Facebook that lets users get a blue verified badge, access to customer support, and other benefits with a monthly premium. Earlier, Twitter came up with a Blue Tick paid subscription model, which allowed customers to purchase Blue Ticks, which at that time were only given by the company to popular, high-profile and deserving accounts.
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Tech billionaire Elon Musk called it ‘inevitable’ after a Twitter channel swiped at Meta head Mark Zuckerberg for copying the Twitter Blue model by rolling out paid subscriptions. It wrote, “Zuckerberg copies Twitter: $12 bucks a month to get verified and get a blue badge”.
It shared Mark Zuckerberg’s post announcing the new product in a broadcast channel. “This week we are launching Meta Verified – a subscription service that allows you to verify your account with a government ID, earn a blue badge, receive additional impersonation protection against accounts claiming to be you, and receive customer support Allows direct access to ,
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Meta Verified starts at $11.99/month on the web and $14.99 for iOS and Android.
Mandatory
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 19, 2023
Netizens mock Zuckerberg for copying Twitter model
Mark Zuckerberg is launching Meta Verified.
Elon Musk: pic.twitter.com/J6TZlTeo7V— Mehul Fanawala (@MehulFanawala) February 20, 2023
Introducing Meta Verified, the subscription service that lets you trade your government ID for blue badges, a false sense of security, and direct access to customer support. Because nothing says authenticity like handing over personal information to a social media giant. Only… https://t.co/vtmjIBxhd8 pic.twitter.com/YriSW6fcDJ– Fixer (@DrillApps) February 19, 2023
Forget Meta Verified…Facebook should be paying people $12 to stay on that platform. — Sahil Shah (@sahilbulla) February 20, 2023
Side effects of blue tick… pic.twitter.com/Qu6fnMdJqE
— Bhavesh Parihar (@bhaveshp1509) February 14, 2023
Twitter users with blue ticks
last year so far pic.twitter.com/eYVGHRoFyN— Shubh (@kadaipaneer) February 15, 2023
This is how they react.