Twitter Blue, which was introduced over three months in the past, has earned solely $11 million ( ₹90.5 crore) in cell subscription income, in keeping with knowledge from app intelligence agency Sensor Tower, elevating an vital concern for the microblogging web site and its new proprietor Elon Musk who promoted paid verification as an alternative choice to advertisement-based enterprise mannequin .

The micro-blogging platform launched its premium subscription Twitter Blue which provided the coveted blue badge on paid profiles. Musk, with eye on elevating income, launched it as one of many principal adjustments caused after buying Twitter in a contentious $44 billion deal. Although Twitter Blue was initially launched in restricted markets again in 2021, it acquired vigorous backing after Musk took the corporate his hand.

Twitter Blue customers can publish longer movies, get 50% fewer ads, get early entry to new options. Their posts can even be prioritised and might be edited as much as 5 instances inside half-hour of posting. Indian customers can subscribe to Twitter Blue after paying ₹650 and ₹900 monthly on web site and cell, respectively.

The knowledge says that paid subscription has over 3,85,000 cell subscribers globally on each iOS and Android. U.S. is its largest market, with 246,000 subscribers spending round $8 million ( ₹65.8 crore), reported Tech Crunch.

In India the place it was launched in February, the report provides, Twitter Blue has generated income of solely $301,000 ( ₹2.4 crore), from round 17,000 cell subscriptions.

“India became Twitter’s sixth-largest mobile market in terms of in-app purchases following the local launch of Twitter Blue. The country represented Twitter’s eighth-largest mobile market for in-app purchases nearly 10 months before the company’s acquisition and Twitter Blue’s subsequent launch and relaunch,” Abe Yousef, senior insights analyst at Sensor Tower was quoted by Tech Crunch as saying.

It ought to be emphasised right here that this income projection excludes web-based subscriptions and doesn’t differentiate between annual and month-to-month Blue subscribers. Furthermore, the figures cowl the 20 markets the place Blue was obtainable until final week, whereas Twitter solely made the service launched it globally on Friday.

Twitter said on Friday that it could be discontinuing the legacy blue tick from accounts, making it obligatory for profiles to pay for the badge. It stays to be seen how many individuals transfer to the paid plan after the removing.