Twitter users abroad are reporting that the option to sign up for Twitter Blue, the company’s new $7.99 subscription service, disappeared from the platform’s iOS app just days after the service went live.
Users in the US, UK and several countries where Twitter Blue access is available could subscribe to Twitter Blue from the sidebar in the iOS app. The service was not yet available for Android users. However, today users They noticed that it disappeared. For those whose links are still available, trying to sign up only gives an error message; “Thank you for your interest!” message appears on the screen. “Twitter Blue will be available in your country in the future. Please check back later.”
It’s unclear why users failed to sign up for Twitter Blue. Perhaps Twitter is deliberately pausing access to it while dealing with the chaos caused by the launch of the Blue service. In the last few days, countless users have been buying verification tokens to impersonate brands and celebrities. Or the system may have crashed unintentionally.
Twitter seems to have unlaunched the new $7.99 Twitter Blue subscription
Checked with Twitter’s API and the in-app purchase for Twitter Blue Verified is no longer listed for production
— Jane Manchun Wong (@wongmjane) November 11, 2022
Since Elon Musk’s mass layoffs on Twitter late last week, many, including current employees, feel that the service is increasingly in danger of deteriorating as minor mistakes are not addressed and the company’s remaining staff are forced to work. Moreover, stress, overwork and the necessity of returning to the office in person also push the limits.
The debut of the revamped Twitter Blue has been incredibly mixed. Twitter is trying to thwart fake accounts pretending to be official accounts by issuing another verification badge with a gray checkmark marking accounts as “official”. The company removed this feature shortly after making it available, and then relaunched it within a few days. In line with these developments, with the disappearance of Twitter Blue registrations from the iOS application, we can think that the company needs to take a break from new subscriber registrations, at least for a certain period of time, in order to avoid the confusion.
